Entrepreneur Tasks S’East Governors On Infrastructure

L-R: Sister Charlesmaria Emechebe of Holy Family Sisters of the Needy, Okwu Uratta, Imo State Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Services, Mrs Racheal Uchendu and Sister Innocentia Emenogu of Holy Family Sisters of the Needy, after the Comptroller was bestowed with a chieftaincy title by Eze David Osuagwu of Awaka in Owerri, on Sunday.

An entrepreneur, Chief
Godwin Ezeemo, has advised South-East governors to provide the basic infrastructure that can support the establishment of industries in their various states.
Ezeemo told newsmen in Enugu that when established, such industries would address the high rate of unemployment in the zone.
“My advice to them as par what is on ground is that they must look up to establishing the required environment providing the necessary basic infrastructure that could support industries.
“You can’t invest where you don’t have infrastructure that could support what you are doing.
“You know you cannot really carry any reasonable industry with generators.
“The trouble that is associated with it (industry) is a lot, if you have roads, you have power, which is number one; you can manage water and you can even manage the road.
“So, the governors we don’t need anything off them, they don’t need to share money to us; all they need to do is to make sure that we have power.
“Find a way of generating power here (for industrial clusters), keeping it; then, making an effort to get the Federal Government to support every state that wants to generate power.
“The states should be allowed to generate power and consume the power within (their states), if they have excess they can now put it into the national grid.
“It is not matter of you generate power, you give it away; yet your area is not covered, it doesn’t really make sense.
“It will encourage every other state to try to generate power and we would have enough for the entire nation. And everybody will be happy for stable and reliable power support to industries.”
Ezeemo, who is the publisher of Orient Newspapers, urged Nigerian leaders to desist from keeping their wealth abroad at the expense of the development of the country and peaceful coexistence.
“It is our country and the most comfortable place for us; we will do well to develop it; nobody will do it for us if we do not do it.’’