₦airaland Forum

Cjrane2:
Oga,

The International airport is a $2 billion dollars PPP project. The total Anambra budget every year is about $400 million. So you'd prefer using the money for salaries and other infrastructural development to go int cargo airport? Yet, you have no cargo to import or export, but that is your main concern.

We need to create industrial estates powered by gas supplies to help more industries come into the state. We need to develop cattle ranches and to become self sufficient in beef and other animal protein. We need to build a light rail system to connect Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi and Ekwulobia to help the state achieve quick and cheap transportation of people, goods and services from one part of the state to another.

Yet, your major concern is completion of cargo airport just started less than 2 years ago and it's a PPP? Now you see why we smell mischief in some questions?

I fail to understand what this fixation with airport and its completion under 24 months is all about if not pure and unbridled mischief.
In my opinion,providing gas infrastructure and master plan to link all the industrial estates in the East and Asaba tops the agenda.It will birth an industrial revolution unheard of anywhere because it will also lead to establishment of microgrids and micro thermal stations in industrial clusters (Habour industrial estate,Emene industrial estste,Uru Industrial estate Nnewi,Ozubulu Industrial estate etc) with long term positive domino effects. While i do not know if such services is still in the exclusive lists or part of the deregulated elements,it is still my candid opinion that all the big Igbo players in oil industry pursue it as a partnership project and by that i mean (Seplat of Uju Ifejika, Tecon Oil of Ome Ifeukwu Ihiala,Nestoil of Obijackson,Oronto Oil and Gas of Arthur Eze,Captain Iheanacho's integrated oil and Gas and a host of others. I wish such can be done with a view to building an enduring regional economy. Dr Maduka's 12 storey hospital will turn around health tourism in another decade to Umuchuwku if he equips his hospital to international standards. Such gestures can be replicated with equally positive results in other sectors and these things are doable. Are we even aware that one of the executive directors of Ford Motors is a Nigerian? Plenty more abound. Only and if only governance will be run like a business in Nigeria and Igbo land in particular and not a money sharing assembly.