Anambra rejects 2025 state ranking

 The Anambra State Government has rejected the 2025 PCL State Performance Index (PSPI), calling it “deeply flawed and misleading” aft the authorities dropped from 8th successful 2024 to 34th.

Mrs Chiamaka Nnake, Anambra’s Commissioner for Budget and Planning, released a connection Friday successful Awka, accusing Philips Consulting Limited (PCL) of applying an unscientific and biased methodology successful the report.

Nnake criticised the report’s reliance connected a illustration size of lone 78 respondents, arguing that specified a fig was invalid for a authorities with a colonisation exceeding six cardinal residents.

“By accepted statistical standards, the illustration size is invalid.

“Worse still, 76 per cent of respondents were male, making the information unrepresentative and biased,” the Commissioner noted successful her statement.

She further criticised the report’s absorption connected cognition and expenditure data, saying it failed to measure existent outcomes oregon measurable improvement results crossed sectors successful the state.

The commissioner outlined cardinal authorities achievements she said were ignored, including escaped acquisition from Nursery to SS3, recruitment of much than 8,100 teachers, and a 27 per cent emergence successful enrollment.

Nnake said Anambra ranked archetypal nationally successful a 2024 UNICEF-led healthcare challenge, and much than 120,000 women had accessed escaped maternal attraction crossed assorted state-run wellness facilities.

She besides highlighted infrastructure milestones: saying much than 546 kilometres of roads completed wrong 3 years, positive respective flyovers and strategical bridges delivered nether the existent administration.

“It’s unfortunate that successful spite of these achievements, PCL ranked Anambra 30th successful Health and failed to bespeak important improvement indicators crossed cardinal sectors,” she added.

The commissioner urged PCL to follow rigorous methodologies, including due fieldwork, typical sampling, and the usage of objective, outcome-based indicators that reflected existent advancement crossed states.

“You cannot beryllium successful Lagos oregon Abuja and fertile states based connected the opinions of a fewer people. This reduces superior governance efforts to specified propaganda,” she said.

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