Anambra Governor Soludo vows to complete 500km of roads, distributes 1.1m economic trees

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Governor Soludo of Anambra State

By Alphonsus Nweze, Onitsha

Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has vowed to complete 500km of roads in the State within his first four years in office.

The Governor who was speaking during the launching of Coconut, Palm palm trees and seedlings of other economic trees at POC Achebe stadium, Fegge, Onitsha weekend said he has already completed 300km within his first two years in office.

Prof Soludo said that implied they complete an average of 10km per month.

He said as part of his Government’s urban regeneration, he would soon commision the Okpoko General Hospital in addition to several roads he has completed to lift the slum.

The Governor assured that the people of Anàmbra State would soon own a new Government House and Governor’s lodge in Awka, the State capital.

He said the state has the lowest in out of school children in the country and number one in fiscal transparency and sustainability in the country.

Governor Soludo said he is reviving water scheme in the State to make water available to the citizens but lamented that the State is “erosion capital of the world” and 70 percent urbanised but assured that he would maximiae the remaining land to cultivate palm,coconut and other economic trees to empower the people.

“We will exploit every inch to earn a living, build infrastructure. Our environment is facing existential threat but we will do everything to recover land. We will make Anambra State the greenest state in the country,” said Soludo.

He said palm, coconut and other economic trees would constitute “Anambra’ s new oil wealth” in addition to human capital, stating that over one million household would be empowered in the State by planting about 10 million seedlings of palm, coconut and other economic trees through the 326 electoral wards in the State.

Soludo was optimistic that in the next three years these household would have started the harvesting of these economic trees to become the state’s new industrial ecosystem, new Centre for palm fruit, coconut, paw paw, bitter cola among other economic trees.