Anambra Government not ready for a second airport, says Commissioner  

Anambra Government says it is not acceptable to conception different airdrome astatine Ndikelionwu, Orumba North Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, arsenic being speculated connected societal media.

Dr Law Mefor, Commissioner for Information successful Anambra, said that determination was nary program whatsoever to bash so, little than 4 years aft the inauguration of the existent Chinua Achebe International Cargo Airport, Umeri successful Anambra East assembly area.

Mefor said successful a property connection made disposable to journalists successful Awka connected Friday, that the government’s attraction was drawn to a mendacious study making the rounds successful the media astir plans to physique a 2nd airport.

He urged the nationalist to disregard the study arsenic “distractions from anti-government individuals” and described the reports arsenic “falsehood and speculative”.

According to him, the speculation whitethorn beryllium pursuing the caller sojourn to the Anambra Mixed-use Industrial City (AMIC), with immoderate radical perchance assuming that the concern parkland would necessitate its ain airport.

The commissioner said that successful alignment with the governor’s Urban Renewal Plan, multimodal transport systems, including railways and airports, were being studied arsenic portion of the AMIC maestro program to guarantee semipermanent economical and infrastructural sustainability.

He said that the caller tract sojourn was specifically to commence method investigations to find the astir suitable locations for these transport systems wrong the Industrial Park and the caller metropolis design, should the request originate successful the future.

“The Final maestro program besides integrates the 4,000-hectare Anambra Mixed-Use Industrial City (AMIC), a Pharmaceutical Hub, and a caller global-standard municipality metropolis with innovation centres, acquisition and aesculapian facilities, tourism, concern districts, and lodging clusters to thrust industrialisation and sustainable growth.

“The Anambra State Government therefore, clarifies that whether oregon not a railway and an airdrome should beryllium built to work AMIC has not been decided, and immoderate specified determination volition beryllium communicated done authoritative channels erstwhile taken.

“Members of the nationalist are truthful advised to disregard this mendacious study and proceed to trust connected authoritative announcements connected immoderate important projects oregon developments successful the state,” helium said.

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