We
are stepping up the disclosure of investment potentials located in all
the nooks and crannies of Abia State. To that effect, we will not
consider any propagation as having constituted enough sensitisation. Our
strength also derives from the exhilarating output trailing our input
in making Abia investors’ destination.
Our
convincing submission is that the convivial and investor-friendly
atmosphere being consummated in the state must be optimally utilised to
make Abia economically eventful. My passion for this drive would not let
me direct comprehensive attention to other issues of similar importance
until Abia is overwhelmed with qualitative and result-oriented gridlock
in investment traffic. This, therefore, is by extension a complementary
piece on similar efforts powered to advocate our passion for a huge
manifest presence of varied blue-chip investors.
The
receptive latitude for the attainment of this people-oriented feat was
heralded with a dispatch implementation of “one-stop shop”, a gateway
designed to weed out bottlenecks and time-consuming red-tapism
symptomatic of our bureaucratically designed public offices. A rewarding
feedback from the intellectually packaged first economic summit
convened in Abia State, one-stop shop has proven to be a potent tool in
galvanising the good intentions of government. Consequently, we have at
incredible record time sealed the paperwork to mutually beneficial
business relationships.
We are
always in a hurry to flaunt our initial breakthrough in
government-private sector synergy powered by Me-Cure Health Services of
India. This is particularly so because it identified with us during our
desert experience occasioned by the audacious menace of insecurity and
other unwholesome activities which stood on the way of government’s good
intentions.
Me-Cure-Government
collaboration drives home the point that where there is a will, there
will always be a way. I have never ceased to grin in gratitude to God
and in deserved sense of satisfaction recalling that Abia State
Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Centre has attained the elevated
status of clinically dealing with complicated referral cases from
neighbouring states and even beyond. The specialist hospital is
strategically the high-point of a small beginning located in
government’s resilience to build over 250 health centres across the
length and breadth of Abia State in liaison with the Millennium
Development Goals.
It is our
firm belief that the Federal Government of Nigeria will expedite action
on the official endorsement of Alkamali-driven mass-employing greenfield
refinery certified for location at the oil neighbourhood of Owaza in
Ukwa-West Local Government Area. The mass-employing capacity of this
venture will significantly depopulate the unemployment market in the
state. We honestly cannot wait to consummate this reality. Government
had earlier battled with the faulty start of undermining the economic
potentials prevalent in rubber extraction, until a leading figure
brought Imoni-Yame Holdings Limited into the rubber potential of Abia
State. With an enviable track record spanning over eight years, Abia
will hopefully leverage on Imoni-Yame’s wealth of professional
experience in the management of Abia State Rubber Plantation currently
adorning the massive stretch of Abam in Arochukwu Local Government Area
for the wellbeing of Abians.
Before now,
it would have been practically impossible to say that South African
giants in chain stores, Shoprite, will come anywhere close to Abia, let
alone deploying to site for their ongoing state-of-the-art shopping
centre. This is one awe-inspiring reality that ceaselessly compels me to
appreciate and shudder at how much we can create legacies and leave
gigantic footprints in the sands of time if we are genuinely drawn to
the wellbeing of our people as our mandate. It is in the same vein that a
gateway was extended to Protea Hotels, also from South Africa, for the
injection of life into the comatose Abia Hotels Limited. This
calculation will further raise the bar in the already vibrant
hospitality arena of the state capital, which will leverage on the gains
projected to come from the huge reality of the International Conference
Centre, Abia State.
The dilemma
of when enough private broadcast stations will pitch tent in the state
had always bothered us until the recent hand of friendship extended to
Multi-Mesh Communications Limited yielded the desired result. Love FM,
on the stable of Multi-Mesh, is already broadcasting from the state
capital and its entry is evidently redefining radio and television
programming in the state.
As earlier
on highlighted somewhere, this abridged index is a conscious effort
designed to lend my voice to the glaring investment potentials inherent
in Abia State and to reiterate government’s desire for a continuous
streaming of this traffic, having established the obligatory convivial
atmosphere.
We are,
however, not done with the provision of platforms as our synergy with
Geometric Power Limited is in itself another ambitious vision which will
drive the eventual illumination of Aba, our commercial pride, for the
revival of struggling small and medium enterprises. When the Geometric
Independent Power Project is commissioned, Abia would have coasted to
the victorious base of uninterruptible power supply.
We scarcely
can talk about Abia without contrasting the frightening security
situation of yesteryears with today’s caressing peace of what the state
has become, constantly captured in the peaceful movement of persons and
goods and the serenading songs of birds.
Abia State’s
investment drum is designed to beat louder, hoping that other sectors
like agriculture, tourism and solid minerals will become private
sector-driven in a secured and mouth-watering return on investment that
Abia has pledged to uphold. I sincerely hope local and foreign investors
will continue to feast on this investment-friendly window.
BUSINESS DAY
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