From CHARLES ONYEKWERE
Executive Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Echezuna Anazodo has empowered over 200 traders with free lock-up shops.
Anazodo said his administration had also made available, fertiliser and other farming tools for 520 farmers in the council area for the 2025 farming season.
The local government boss disclosed this while briefing journalists at the council headquarters in Nnewi at the weekend, as part of activities to mark his six months in office, noting that the empowerment cut across political line.
He said the gesture and other achievements within the period were part of the electoral promises he made to the people of Nnewi North during his campaign.
He said his administration would continue to deliver the needed dividends of democracy to the people in line with Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s vision of making Anambra a destination point in Nigeria.
“Within six months as the executive chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area under the political platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, my administration has provided good governance across the four corners of the council.
“Within the period under review, my administration empowered more than 200 youths in various skills acquisition programmes, purchased JAMB form for hundreds of intelligent indigent students and the ongoing re-construction of Okpaka bridge that has been abandoned for decades by past administrations.
“The lock-up shops are mainly for low income traders like ice-fish and fufu sellers.
“The empowerment gestures were done in partnership with a group known as Nnewi Forum. According to him, the group was formed by relevant stakeholders in the area with the aim of supporting Governor Soludo in actualising his vision of making Anambra a clean, green, smart peaceful, secure, livable and prosperous state in Nigeria.
“This support is meant to help our people grow without adding any burden.
“My administration is again embarking on revalidation of street naming to curtail personality conflict among Nnewi sons and daughters.
“We are also planning to reward those who have contributed one way or the other to the growth and development of the industrial city.
“I am using the little funds that we are generating to execute these projects and I am very much comfortable with it. I am towing the path of our solution governor who has vowed to govern the state without borrowing,” he said.
Seeking media partnership in promoting his administration, Anazodo vowed to deliver 120 percent votes for Governor Soludo’s reelection bid in the November 8 governorship election.
