Gov.Orji Promises to Industrialise Abia

Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia on Monday said that his administration would take strategic steps to ensure rapid industrial growth in the state in 2013. Orji made the promise in his New Year goodwill message to the people of the state, made available to newsmen in Umuahia. He said that government would establish agro-based industries, adding that entrepreneurs would be fully engaged in mechanised agriculture in the proposed liberation farms. He further promised to pursue the establishment of technology parks in Aba and Umuahia in 2013 in order to harness the ingenuity of the entrepreneurs in the state. 

The governor expressed the optimism that the initiative would support the growth of the small scale enterprises and also create jobs for the people. He gave assurance that he would judiciously utilise the state resources to transform the area and deliver the dividend of democracy to the people. Orji said that government would continue to plug all loopholes for financial leakages in the system.

He said that the bio-metric system of salary payment initiated by his administration would be completed in 2013 as part of effort to check over bloated workforce and ghost workers. The governor said that a new electronic tax remittance system would be introduced to eliminate the problem of double taxation. He commended the indigenes of the state for their unflinching support to his administration and assured them that 2013 would be better.