In keeping with his avowed commitment to achieve increased investment inflow to the state, Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, said the state has attracted about $1.65 billion investment from investors since March 17, 2014 when the new administration was inaugurated.
Obiano, who addressed journalists on the various programmes and achievements as well as challenges facing his government, also disclosed that he had appointed former Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Oduah, as head of Anambra State Airport Development Agency based on her wealth of experience and track record of turning around the country’s aviation industry, noting that his administration had distributed high-yielding seedlings to farmers and encouraged the formation of cooperative societies for easy access to farm inputs and credits.
The governor stated that through the Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency
(ANSIPPA), investments had flowed in from the Coched Farms $175 million, Ekcel Farms Limited ($150 million) and Grains and Silos Llimited ($11 million). Others are Delfarm Limited and Songhai Regional Centre from Benin Republic with $200 million investment, West Africa Inter-continental Trade Centre ($320 million) and Cardinal Developers and Trust which took over the completion of Anambra’s four-star luxury hotel in Onitsha, among others.
He stated that the investment feat recorded by his administration in a few months in office was made possible by well-deserved appointment of competent professionals, especially in the areas of financial investment and banking as board members of the Anambra State investment Promotion and Protection Agency (ANSIPPA), led by Cyril Enweze, traditional ruler of Umuoji and an accomplished professional of international repute.
The governor pointed out that consideration was being given to an idea of expanding Onitsha Main Market to the River Niger, stressing that four other urban markets had been proposed for urban settlements of the state.
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