Soludo plans new airport at industrial park

By Vincent Ujumadu

Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, is readying to physique a caller airdrome successful Ndikelionwu, Orumba North section authorities area, arsenic portion of his administration’s tendency to alteration the authorities into a astute mega city.

Speaking during a circuit of the tract of the projected airport, the Managing Director of Chinua Achebe International Cargo Airport, Umueri, Mr. Martins Nwafor, said that the sojourn was to place a suitable and flyable determination wherever the authorities authorities tin found an airdrome alongside the projected concern parkland wrong an aerotropolis.

Nwafor, who besides chairs the recently inaugurated Airport and Aerotropolis Committee, described the task arsenic a crippled changer that would unlock untapped economical opportunities successful the state.

According to him, the integration of aviation infrastructure with the surrounding commercial, residential, and logistics facilities would make a dynamic airport-driven metropolis susceptible of attracting important investment.

He added that the improvement of aggregate airports crossed Anambra volition accelerate industrialisation and foster the state’s wide growth.

In their abstracted remarks, the erstwhile President-General of Ndikelionwu Welfare Association, Hon. Fabian Nwosu, and the association’s Vice President, Hon. Ifesinachi Chukwurah Onwurah, expressed gratitude to the authorities authorities for siting the task successful their community.

They pledged the people’s afloat support, security, and practice to guarantee the palmy take-off and completion of the airport.

Other dignitaries who were with Nwafor during the circuit included the MD/CEO of Anambra State Solid Minerals Development Company Limited, Prof. Charles O. Ofoegbu; Senior Special Assistant to the Governor connected Security, Retired Air Vice Marshal Ben Chiobi, laminitis of Sliding Towers, Architect. Chukwudi Ezenwa; arsenic good arsenic assemblage chiefs and elders of Ndikelionwu.

Geologists and geophysicists from the Anambra State Solid Minerals Development Company Limited, who carried retired mapping of the determination were besides present.

The station Soludo plans caller airdrome astatine concern park appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.