Abia needs legislation-backed development strategy to succeed - former Commissioner

April 25, 2017

By Ijendu Iheaka

Mr Precious Nwakodo, Former Commissioner for Special Duties, Abia, says the state  government ought to take a cue from Lagos state in designing a sustainable development strategy.

Nwakodo disclosed this in an interview with our reporter in Aba on Tuesday.

He urged the state government to produce a strategic development blueprint for the development of the state which must be supported by law and followed by coming administrations to ensure Abia’s development.

Nwakodo noted that the state would make no progress if administrations come and go with their own plans and projects adding that the result would only be backwardness in the state.

The former commissioner thanked Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for his foresightedness shown in his five pillars of development work plan which includes education, agriculture, oil and gas, trade and commerce.

He said that the governor’s decision would go a long way in bringing the much needed progress Abia had lacked into the state.

He however asked for a legislation supported plan that would help future administrations key into the development plans of the current administration to advance the state on the path of progress.

“Abia as a state needs to have set goals which is what I think the present government is trying to do.

“And the people as a corporate entity need to understand, this is the direction we want to go as a people and a state.

“Let us give the government the support so that it will achieve its goals. We should not see a government as a PDP or APC governor or government”, he said.

He also urged Ikpeazu’s administration to ensure its plans were enfolded in the vision and blue-print of Abia’s founding fathers at its creation in 1990 to entrench the spirit of equity.

Nwakodo further counseled the government to follow the initial blue-print for the state’s development at inception and amend some parts if needed to sustain progress in Abia.