Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Echezuna Anazodo has empowered over 200 traders in the council area with free lock-up shops.
He said his administration has also made available fertilizers and other farming tools for 520 farmers in the council area for the 2025 farming season.
Anazodo 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.
He said the gesture was part of the electoral promises he made to the good people of Nnewi North during his campaign.
The chairman said his administration will continue to deliver the needed dividends of democracy to the people in line with Governor Charles Soludo’s vision of making Anambra State, a destination point in Nigeria.
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“Within this period of six months in office as the executive chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area under the political platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), my administration has provided good governance across the four corners of the council area.
“Within the period under review, my administration has also empowered more than 200 youths in various skills acquisition programmes, purchased the 2025 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 the low income traders. The empowerment gestures are done in partnership with a groupz known as Nnewi Forum,” he said.
According to him, the group was formed by some relevant stakeholders in the area with the aim of supporting Governor Soludo in actualizing his vision of making Anambra State, 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 a 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 of the state.
“I am using the little funds we are generating within the council area to execute all these projects and I am very much comfortable with it. I am towing the path of our solution governor who has vow to govern the state without borrowing,” Anazodo added.
