Ahead of 2023 when the tenure of his administration will come to an end, do you think the governor will be able to complete the many gigantic projects he initiated talking about flyovers, infrastructure, health,, roads, Agriculture?
Yes, looking at the track records of the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, you will appreciate that he is not like any other politician who makes promises and fails.
Looking at the achievements he has attained over these years that he has been in the office, you will agree with me that all the promises he made; all the projects he started before now, he has finished them before embarking on new projects. You will agree with me that first tenure of the governor came with a lot of promises which he made exactly on May 29, 2015 and people were wondering whether he was going to make this a reality.
He promised roads that will be very durable, he promised a new environment, a new infrastructure that is long lasting. And it was as if it was not going to happen.
But we can see that all the promises he made in the first tenure he has accomplished all of them beyond even the number that he did mention.
So you strongly believe he will do same on the ongoing and new projects being introduced?
Yes, and that brings us to the fact that he is a man of extra ordinary ability. He is not like any other governor; he is an extra ordinary governor in terms of his capacity, in terms of his passion for job.
And so all the new introductions he made, all the new projects that he initiated and that he is still initiating, one will have no doubt the he is going to accomplish them. Yes, I agree with you that it’s really incredibly amazing that he is still promising to do more projects even when he has a lot in his hands.
From 2015 – 2020, He constructed this roads:
Constructed/rehabilitated over 600km of roads across the state, mostly in the rural areas, some of which include:
*Rehabilitated and remodeled the ancient, historic and undulating 11km Milliken Hill-Ngwo-9th Mile road.
*Constructed the 12km Opi-Nsukka dual carriageway up to University of Nigeria (UNN) gate
*Constructed the Ebonyi River Bridge, Ikem
*Constructed the 31km Udenu Ring road with two high-tech bridges
*Iva Valley roads in Enugu North LGA
*Constructed the 8.8km Nkalagu-Eha Amufu road in Isi-Uzo LGA, neglected for over 35 years
*The construction of the 26.66km Ukpabi-Nimbo-Ugbene Ajima-Eziani road in Uzo-Uwani LGA (RAMP-2)
*The construction of the 22.443km Neke-Mbu-Ogbodu Aba-Obollo Etiti inter-community road linking Isi-Uzo and Udenu LGAs (RAMP-2)
*Constructed the 13km Nike Lake junction-Harmony Estate-Amorji Nike-Adoration Pilgrimage Centre-Orie Emene road linking the ever-busy Abakpa Nike with Emene satellite town in Enugu East LGA
*Reconstructed the Nike Lake Road and Abakpa Nike Road in Enugu East LGA, which were marred by traffic gridlock in the past
*Constructed the Amaeke-Ngwo-Nsude-9th Mile and Amankwo-Amaeke-Amah Brewery Junction-9th Mile bypasses in Udi LGA
*Reconstructed the Airport Roundabout/Orie-Emene/St. Patrick’s College/Eke-Obinagu Road in Enugu East LGA
*Reconstructed the Enugu Road (Nsukka) Junction-Umuezebi-Nru Junction-University Gate road, the Post Office Roundabout-Odenigbo Roundabout-Ogurugu Road-Ikenga road and the Obechara Road Junction-Umakashi-Mechanic Village-Ikenga Hotels Junction road, all in the University town of Nsukka.
*Constructed the 8.2km Inyi-Akpugoeze road in Oji River LGA
*Constructed the Ituku Road in Awgu LGA and the Amurri road in Nkanu West LGA
*Simultaneously executed 35 grassroots development projects across the 17 LGAs
*Rehabilitated urban and rural roads in Emene, Abakpa-Nike, 9th Mile Corner and the University town of Nsukka
*More internal roads in the University town of Nsukka
*Rehabilitated the old UNTH-Bunker road, Enugu; constructed the Holy Trinity Street -Bishop Michael Eneje Street, Independence Layout; Mount Crescent, GRA; Orofia Street, off Nza Street, Independence Layout; Dental School-Tipper Garage road Trans Ekulu, Enugu; Ugwuaji-Loma Linda-Timber Shed road, Maryland, Enugu; Nwafia Street, Independence Layout; Mbanefo Street, New Haven; The Secretariat Road, G.R.A; Court Avenue by new State Secretariat; Ibuza Street at Independence Layout; Isi Uzo Street at Independence Layout; Owerri Road; Poly Clinic Road, Asata; Carter Street, off Ogui Road, and other roads are going on as I am writing this.
And in the health sector, He Completed the state-of-the-art Enugu State Medical Diagnostic Centre, Enugu
*Construction and renovation of district hospitals and health centres in the state, especially in the rural areas under the primary healthcare programme
*Upgraded Udi District Hospital and Polly Clinic, Asata to General Hospitals, after their rehabilitation
*Ongoing construction of 200-bed Specialist Hospital, Igbo Ano, Enugu North Senatorial District, to serve as facilities for the ESUT College of Medicine that has been relocated to Nsukka
*Launch of the Universal Health Coverage
*Intervened and integrated faith-based rural health facilities into the Free Maternal and Child Health Programme
*Recently awarded multiple contracts for massive construction of 7 units of Type 3 Primary Health Care Centre in 7 LGAs and upgrade and rehabilitation of the General Hospital Ogrute, Enugu Ezike and Nsukka District Hospital, among others.
He is saying that before he bows out in 2023 all the projects are going to be a completed. He is building more infrastructures as I writing this, with very wonderful quality materials.
So, I do agree with everything the governor says he will do. The Lion Industrial Business Park is about 90 per cent completed and the biggest Industrial park in Africa at that, obviously by any government in Africa. Like I said all the materials are on ground, they are just fixing it to be 100 per cent.
When the governor said “I will build a befitting worshipping centre for God”, people didn’t understand, I didn’t understand but God gave him the inspiration, the vision, he built the biggest Anglican Church ever built by any government in Africa; it is very beautiful and resplendent like gold.
so, these are the things that the governor has done which will convince me that whatever he says he will do he will do. God is with him, he has that passion.
As I writie this all the rural communities are being connected with motorable roads and he does the supervision by himself. He does the supervision day and night and ensures monitoring and evaluation; he ensures quality assurance in all he does both the ones on contract and the ones done by direct labour.
And so these are the indications that the governor is going to really anchor very well by the year 2023 when he will be bowing out.
Thou COVID-19 pandemic has brought very low the revenue profile of the state, both the internally generated revenue and the federal allocation. This was really unexpected and it came at this point that the Governor have a lot of projects across the various nooks and crannies of the state. But I want to say that from what the governor rolled out in his revised budget, which he has just signed, I think he is about one of the first governors that did sign the revised budget in line with international practices and best practices; and I can say that he had to refocus his priorities on the area of agriculture, area of health, education and human capital development.
At least those sectors that will bring about multiplication of job creation propensities and those are the areas that he is looking at. How can he galvanise these that he has really put in place and see how they can be providing revenue, providing job, in creating wealth for the people of Enugu State and in so doing we are expecting that in the near future the revenue profile especially the IGR will increase more especially the economic development indices looking at human capital development, looking at increase in their health index, looking at of course education and agriculture, that they will grow and that will enhance our revenue profile, that will enhance the economic development of the state.
So, again I want to also say that the governor is looking at the fact that despite the COVID-19 pandemic that he will do a lot to see how to engage the rural farmers, the rural communities to participate in the various empowerment and agricultural programmes of government
The Governor of Enugu state is doing very very well.
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Miss Stellamaris Chiamaka Nwede
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