Soludo Unfolds Blueprint To Make Anambra Choice Destination For Investors
Michael Ezenwata.
Governor Chukwuma Soludo has unleashed tangible policies aimed at making Anambra the epicenter of industrial activities for investors.
To actualize the vision, the governor announced plans to rejig the security apparati of the state to make it conducive for investment purposes.
He gave the indication at the Second Edition of the Anambra Summit 2024, at the International Convention Centre, Awka.
Speaking on the theme of the summit, “Changing Gears: Accelerating Anambra’s Economic Transformation’, Governor Soludo intimated that his cardinal policy thrust is to build a state he will be proud to live in and invest in, after serving out his term as Governor.
Given the endowment of human and material resources in Anambra state, he urged investors to make haste to invest in the state which has attractive prospects for growth and rapid industrialization.
He listed some vital projects such as the ongoing ten-storey five star hotel located beside the International Convention Centre which is being piled, the Awka Shopping Mall Complex in Awka, the new Government House, nearing completion, and the Governor’s Lodge Complex, as well as the up grading of the Chinua Achebe International Airport with night landing light facilities to be installed, among other projects scattered in all the 3 Senatorial Zones of the state in their various levels of completion.
Governor Soludo solicited the support of the citizenry to actualize his vision for the state.
In a speech, the state Chairman of the Anambra State Investment, Promotion and Protection Agency (ANSIPPA) Mr.Mark Okoye Junior, expressed delight in the policy thrust of Governor Soludo which occasioned the signings of some Memorandum of Understanding between the state and its foreign and local partners.
In a press statement on the launching of the Second Edition of the Summit, a community leader in Umuawulu, Chike Oranye ( ESQ) commended Governor Soludo for his good policy thrust and urged that Umuawulu which has a wide expanse of land and located within the Awka Capital territory be enlisted as communities where Agricultural industry or a Manufacturing industry should be sited.
On his part, Dr. Johnson Ezedinachi of the Ukpo community, disclosed that the community has enough land to accommodate the siting of skills acquisition centre by the state government.
Highpoints on the occasion were the signings of Memorandum of Understanding between the Anambra State government and some of its foreign and local partners, as well as conveying of goodwill messages by the state’s development partners.
Some dignitaries that graced the occasion include the Secretary to the State Government Prof. Solomon Chukwulobelu, some members of the State Executive Council, Captains of Industries, the traditional ruler of Ihiala, Igwe Thomas Obidiegwu and other traditional rulers, the Chairman of Njikoka LGA Godwin Ononiba (ESQ) among others.
