[I’M OUT TO SALVAGE ANAMBRA –IFEANYI UBAH] ------------------------ Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Industries and aspirant for 2014 Anambra State governorship election, Dr. Ifeany Ubah, has revealed why he joined the race. He wants to reposition the state, and make it a place of excellence. Speaking to Saturday Sun on his mission to transform the state, Ubah noted that he has supported successive governments in Anambra, believing that things would work out well, adding that the inability of these governments to lift the living conditions of the common people led him to go for the governorship seat of the state. He spoke on this and others. If given the mandate, what would be your philosophy? Leadership is collective responsibility between the leader and the led. This is why I’m promising a participatory leadership if voted into power to run the affairs of Anambra State from 2014. Our contract with Anambra people is to run a truly democratic government. We believe in transparent government and that government processes must be an open book. The people you serve must know, at any point in time, the direction of the ship of state, especially as it relates to government revenue and expenditure. We believe in grassroots democracy and our government in 2014 will organise local government elections within 90 days of assumption of leadership at the state. We believe in employment generation – creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youths so that criminals and criminality will disappear in Anambra. We believe in accountability, that government shall have regular audited financial reports. We will not wait for an audit query from the state’s House of Assembly to give account of our stewardship at any level of government. We believe that security of life and property, and welfare of Anambra people are the primary purpose of governance. What will be your priority as the governor? The increasing wave of crimes and criminality in Anambra State is rooted mainly in the fact that a great number of our youths are unemployed. In the absence of basic infrastructure as well as security of life and property, Anambra has been turned to a ghost state, as our entrepreneurs have relocated to other states. Our government will pay particular attention to youth empowerment, job creation, protection of life and property, good roads, good medical care, quality education for all, etc. You talked about unemployment. How are you going to tackle the problem? We intend to run a government that will not depend on federation account to survive. This we intend to achieve by running a highly industrialised state that will target the patronage of over 160 million Nigerians and beyond. We have a joint responsibility to restore Anambra to its unarguable position, as the pride of Igbo land. Igbo generally are known for their dogged spirit of enterprise, industry and commerce and community. This spirit is presently weaning because of bad leadership. For instance, how do you explain the fact that successive governments in Igboland, in the past, especially in Anambra State, did not deem it important to make commerce and industry the focal point of their leadership, by creating enabling environment for micro, small and medium scale enterprises to thrive in Igboland? It is an established fact worldwide that micro, small and medium scale enterprises form the engine room of the economy because together they create more than 70 percent employment opportunities. So, we are going to transform Anambra from its present emphasis on rent-taking to an industrial hub of Africa, by establishing between 20 and 50 of these enterprises in every local government in the state. Some uninformed bystanders might be tempted to ask how? We have to emphasis that most of these enterprises are run in small apartments when the enabling environment is right. Most communities in Anambra are known to specialise in one form of business or the other. (MTN is not liable for this message)
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:15:52 +0000
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