Abia Governor,Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu is on top of his sport as a new attention sweeps thru the period and breath of Abia because the governor bids to supply in 3 key regions.
In a bid to pragmatically bridge the alarming infrastructure hole within the country, three regions are in recognition — crucial infrastructure, agriculture, exchange and trade. After flagging off scores of roads and bridges across the 3 senatorial zones in an emergency approach christened the “Caterpillar Revolution,” the attempt is yielding fruit with the finishing touch and commissioning of about thirty-three roads and bridges. a few many other roads are at superior stages completion. Governor Ikpeazu’s feat is the matchless record of constructing almost three roads per month, amid the prevailing shortage of financial sources, occasioned via extreme monetary downturn. He has also embedded enduring nice within the jobs executed to date, as he gives Ndi Abia long lasting roads via the rigid Pavement street production technique,higher called Cement generation. Realising that investment in infrastructure is fundamental to Abia improvement, Ikpeazu has no longer dissatisfied Abians as he continues to repair deplorable roads inside the kingdom, including federal roads, even as he diligently pursues city renewal and environmental policies to sanitize Abia cities and create an enabling surroundings for business and habitation. Little marvel,the sector is applauding the Governor’s efforts on this area. If Governor Ikpeazu is on target with regards to bridging Abia infrastructure gap, a silent revolution is affot in the agric sector.. From investment to advertising of crop farming (in which the nation has comparative advantage) farmers and agro-preneurs are having a brand new hire of life. The stride in Agriculture is better liked within the pool of accessible credit score centers available to farmers, enlarging and harnessing value chain of the arena. handiest recently, the Abia country authorities signed a Memorandum of know-how (MoU) to establish a Palm Oil Mill with a personal investor, S-ATM Nigeria limited, on the Abia state Palm property in Ohambele, Ukwa East local authorities area of the nation. this is part of Ikpeazu’s effort to reinvigorate the many palm plantations dotting its landscape. consistent with the state Commissioner for Agriculture Hon. Uzor Azubike, S-ATM will construct an oil mill within the Palm estate in Ohambele. The estate is employing over 5,000 Abians, greater percentage of which can be from the host network.” concentrated on 10,000 hectares of oil-palm plantation throughout the kingdom, Abia is likewise developing 7.5 million palm seedlings between 2016 and 2019. The state might produce two million seedlings within the first segment of the Oil Palm Revolution at Ayaba Umeze in Osisioma Ngwa neighborhood authorities location. the second one will produce three million, even as the third segment goals 2.five million seedlings. Over 1,000 people have up to now been employed. part of the Oil Palm Revolution is status quo of network-based totally oil palm initiatives, which intend to inject the seedlings into the communities at subsidized prices. underneath the association, each network would have an anchor that might buy off fresh fruit bunches for processing, making it possible for every network to have a mini -palm processing mill, whilst the country builds an oil-palm refinery. From but any other angle, the attention on Made-in-Aba products has additionally given Ikpeazu a brand new sobriquet, the chief logo Ambassador of Made-in-Aba products. A process he has vowed to give all it takes to be successful, observers of Abia Governance realize he turned into well prepared for this. They without difficulty cite his inaugural speech on may additionally 29,2015: “I’m proud to stand in front of this crowd nowadays clad in all made in Aba apparel. I pledge to wear made-in-Aba all through my service as Governor and past, no longer due to loss of alternatives but as it is right to be proud of what we've, specifically if it’s the excellent.. The time is ripe to apply the over one hundred ten,000 shoemakers and 50,000 garment makers as a launching pad to permit Abia to in reality end up the undisputed SME capital of Nigeria”. inside the past few months, there was unheard of industrial and emotional interest in Made-in-Aba brand. The marketing campaign has additionally received political traction with applicable regulation and guidelines made in favour of indigenous products. The governor has for my part bought Aba-made footwear,put on and allied products to eminent Nigerians, inclusive of former Nigerian President, chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and Senate President, Dr Olusola Saraki, participants of the countrywide meeting and the enlarged political and enterprise elite. Ikpeazu’s economic diplomacy lately attracted the deliver of some 50,000 pairs of fight footwear to Nigerian army. It has additionally spurred diaspora demand, with initial order of 2000 shoes for Abia college children who are making the most of the Shoe- to- school undertaking. more orders are trickling in as Aba tailors and shoe makers are doing top commercial enterprise. In conclusion, Ikpeazu is riding the crucial Abia financial boom and development at the tripod of Infrastructure Renaissance, Agriculture Revolution and aggressive advertising and marketing of the kingdom with Aba and its business potentials as touchstone. In pursuit of this awesome governance method,the image of the humans’s Governor is hovering beyond phrases and creativeness. And there's no preventing it.
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