Anambra State Governor Professor Chukwuma Soludo said the social policy is the bridge for peaceful coexistence in every community and described the Institute of social policy as one of those progressive developments that happens in any progressive institutions like Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka.
Governor Soludo represented by Anambra State Commissioner for Education Professor Ngozi Chumaude further said he has brought education to the door steps of every child in Anambra State through his free education policy from primary to secondary schools noting that he is working with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) agenda towards caring for the children of the state.
Launching the Institute of social policy in Awka, the UNICEF representative in Nigeria Ms Cristian Munduate, thanked Governor for his support and appreciated the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka for partnering the UNICEF to establish the Institute of Social Policy which she said would enhance research, generate evidence and formulate policies and develop human capacity among individuals and government Institutions in Nigeria and maintain that any child that lacks education from infant will not recover from it.
The Vice Chancellor Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Professor Joseph Ikechebelu represented by his Special Assistant on Academic, professor Ada Omenyi thanked UNICEF for partnering Unizik in establishing the Institute of social policy i saying that social policy would help address tensions and crises between government and citizens
