TONY Nnachetta, the Commissioner for Information and Communications Strategy, has called on Ndi Anambra to renew the mandate given to Governor Willie Obiano.

“This is to enable him to consolidate on his vast achievements over the next four and half years,’’ Ogbuefi Nnachetta, said an interactive session at the Odenigbo FM.

He noted that the governor had within his three and a half years in office moved the state to the next level through his four pillar – development strategy and 12 enablers.

The 4- pillar plan include Agriculture; Industrialisation, Trade & Commerce and Oil & Gas.

According to the commissioner, the governor can be trusted to deliver on his promise, which he has kept and which he is committed to improve on.

He said the state had, through the Anambra State Investment, Promotion and Protection Agency, ANSIPPA, attracted investments in billions of dollars to the state.

He noted that the state had embarked on the construction of the Umueri Airport Project, one of the largest single investments in Nigeria.

The commissioner noted that through his huge investment in security the state, had been able to attract a lot of investments and provided an enabling environment for traders and business to thrive.

Nnachetta said as a trusted and tested banker, auditor, accountant and manager of persons, the governor had the experience and competence to drive the state to higher levels.

On insinuations from political opponents that the governor had debts hanging on its neck, the commissioner noted that the Obiano administration inherited a debt of about N120 billion from previous administration.

“The government has gradually been clearing them, including backlog of salaries of retirees of the ABS, the National Light Newspapers and salaries of workers of the State Water Corporation that has been liquidated,’’ he said.

He, then, spoke of the state government’s plan to take the state to the higher levels, through converting waste materials to energy to enhance the economic viability of the state.

The commissioner added the present administration had well thought out programme on waste management, could only work properly, through the cooperation of the citizenry, who would be expected to comply strictly with the sanitation laws.

Responding to a caller’s question on why the three flyovers in the Awka capital territory would not carry heavy duty trucks, the commissioner said the standard rule is that heavy trucks would only allowed to ply on bridges and not flyovers of the categories in question.

On roads, he said the state government had done several kilometres of roads and involved in rehabilitation of many others in the state.

Nnachetta said under the completion, inauguration and continuing of projects, the state government had completed some of the projects inherited from the previous administration.

On what the state government had done for Akpo Community, the commissioner said the community benefited from the N20 m Community Choose-Your-Project Initiative as well as other incentive.

Nnachetta noted that under the present administration, civil servants were paid salaries promptly, and promotions that had been embargoed for many years were now ongoing.

He announced that that the governor had promises to increase salaries of workers next year.

– Oct 20, 2017 @ 18:26 GMT |