S/East renewal group lauds Anambra government on exemplary leadership style

The South East Renewal Group (SERG) has commended the Anambra State Government for exemplary leadership in the country, saying its commitment to financial discipline, integrity, honesty and transparency has marked it out.

In a statement signed by the President, Dr. Charles Ifebuzo and its Secretary, Mr. Rowland Anyanwu in Enugu, noted that what accrues to the State government annually is almost an insignificant fraction of what the Lagos State government receives yearly but the Anambra State government is competing effectively with its Lagos State counterpart.

The Group remarked that Anambra State is the safest State in Nigeria today and also the most peaceful, thus attracting huge investments estimated by experts to be worth between four and five billion dollars.

According to the group, the state is also far ahead in areas such as education and security recalling that students from Regina Pacis Model Secondary School Onitsha in 2018, won the highly coveted Global Technovation Competition in Silicon Valley, California.

And its students from St John’s Technical Secondary School at Alor won the bronze medal in the International Festival of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics STEM held in Tunisia.

It added that Anambra in December, 2018, became the first State in Nigeria’s history to win in four straight years the highly cherished President’s Cup for Secondary Schools Debate, repeating a similar feat in 2019, at the National Teachers Day celebrated at the Eagle Square in Abuja, where Anambra State won four out of the twenty-four prizes available and went on to win two out of the four vehicles donated by the Federal Ministry of Education, The Presidency and the Nigeria Union of Teachers.

The Group further stated that Anambra’s record in infrastructure development is also exemplary, as it now has the longest bridge in the South East, the best road network in the whole country and is now building the largest conference centre in West Africa with ten thousand sitting capacity which will be ready in April.

They added that the State is also among the three least indebted States in Nigeria and the only Station in Southern Nigeria which has not exceeded the fifty percent threshold of the total annual revenue, as published by the Debt Management Office and the Fiscal Responsibility Commission.

The South East Renewal Forum expressed delight that Ebonyi and Enugu States have started their versions of Anambra’s community- choose-your- project initiative through which the government executes twenty million naira project in each of the one hundred and seventy- nine communities in the State and urged other States in the South East to borrow a leaf firm the State to restore public trust in them.