By Okechukwu Onuegbu
Anambra State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, weekend, announced a plan to introduce and legislate on 24 hours power supply with a view to boost the State economy.
According to the governor, the project termed 24 hours power economy would be backed by a law as the State Attorney General would be sending a bill to Anambra State House of Assembly to that effect.
The Anambra State Commissioner for Industry, Mr Christian Udechukwu, who disclosed this when receiving the executive members of Nnewi Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture paid him a courtesy call in office at Awka, averred that it was part of massive changes and innovations brought in by the administration to industrialise the State.
Udechukwu, while explaining that the governor has signed agreement with the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), added that the governor was turning Anambra into a smart megacity to integrate all physical spaces by creating access, connecting communities and people by roads, rail, water, and air.
"One of the commitments that Governor Soludo made in his manifesto is that he will grow businesses in Anambra, and that he will create thousands of millionaires every year; and I am telling you that the next wave of legal wealth/ money to be made in Nigeria is in Anambra.
"The State government is building new industrial parks, clusters, free trade zones; creating logistics hubs, thereby taking away the cost of acquiring lands and vehicles; removing the cost of building factories and warehouses for MSMEs and industrialists," he noted.
Earlier, the Vice President, Nnewi Chamber of Commerce, and Chief Executive Officer Cutix PLC, Mrs Ijeoma Oduonye, said they were ready to support the government to achieve it objectives for the people through industry, which according to him, was the heartbeat of the industrialists in Anambra.