According to an Entrepreneurng report, Abia State’s Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has received a $50 million fund to help the next administration build 500 kilometers of roads in the state.
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Ikpeazu revealed this on Thursday during a meeting at the Governor’s Lodge in Aba.
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The governor claimed that his devotion and resolution to leave Abia better than he found it motivated his choice to secure the monies for the state.
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He claimed that the monies had given Abia the opportunity to build a lot of roads, advancing the state’s infrastructure.
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Ikpeazu said the facility had a 20-year payback period with a 10-year moratorium, and he added that his administration had negotiated and finalised the interest rate for the facility to be 0.006 percent.
He cited as examples of the projects he was still indebted to God for the reconstruction of Faulks Road in Aba and the remodelling of three blocks in the A-line of Ariaria International Market.Ikpeazu said that he had a diverse approach to the state’s growth and that his administration had set a strong basis for succeeding administrations.
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He claimed that during a ten-year period, the Enyimba Economic City initiative, which was conceived by his administration, will create over 600,000 jobs for the teeming youths.
The challenges of leadership, he continued, lay not in conceptualizing ideas but rather in connecting and directing them into a plan of action that would improve the lives of the state’s citizens.
Ikpeazu expressed satisfaction with his leadership, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving approach, noting that these qualities had made it easier to keep Abia in a state of peace and order.
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