Peter Obi Destroyed Tinubu Propaganda With Facts: Anambra's Real Story!

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]This is the new Anambra state.

[00:00:04]Where prudence and economy have become the hallmark of state business. It's not business as usual. Despite its lean resources, the government in place is trying to make every penny count. The government is directing its people to see their resources in the number and quality of services and facilities provided. It's laying the foundation for all future development in all sectors to bring about the much needed integrated development in education, health, social and economic infrastructure.

[00:00:40]The government wants this state of firsts to be the first again.

[00:00:45]Will you help it?

[00:00:47]Let's join hands to build the Anambra state of our dream.

[00:00:56]Deadline, March 17, 2006, Awka, Anambra State.

[00:01:03]Peter Obi was sworn in as governor of the state.

[00:01:07]His vision for Anambra to develop all sectors simultaneously summed up in the Anambra Integrated Development Strategy ANIDS.

[00:01:22]It's one thing to have a vision.

[00:01:24]It's another thing to have a strategy for the delivery.

[00:01:28]ANIDS is a strategy for the delivery of our vision.

[00:01:35]It is a process that allow us proper planning, budgeting, execution of the plan, supervision, and ensuring delivery of our plan.

[00:01:55]Eight years later has Governor Peter Obi's administration performed to par?

[00:02:02]Has he met his own expectations?

[00:02:05]Here are the facts, you draw the conclusions.

[00:02:09]Fact, essentially, he has restored relative peace to the state.

[00:02:14]Creating an enabling environment for inflow of investments and new industries.

[00:02:21]Fact, he has constructed and rehabilitated over 900 km of roads.

[00:02:29]Giving Anambra, perhaps, the best rural network of roads in Nigeria.

[00:02:36]Fact, he has opened up communities with the construction of 28 bridges that have enhanced economic activity across the state.

[00:02:47]Fact, he has revamped the health sector with the construction of the Anambra State University Teaching Hospital and giving grants to missionary health institutions to enhance service delivery.

[00:03:02]Now, these institutions have gained accreditation.

[00:03:06]Fact, he returned schools to the missionaries and still funds them, which has influenced the rise in the standard of education in the state.

[00:03:17]Fact, he was the first to build two mini stadia in the state.

[00:03:25]Fact, he has built the first state secretariat since the creation of the state.

[00:03:33]Fact, he has helped light up Anambra, as it were, by distributing over a thousand transformers throughout the state.

[00:03:43]Fact, he has cleared the arrears of pensions and gratuities owed by the state since 1996.

[00:03:53]Fact, he is building two major hotels and resource centers at Onitsha and Agulu.

[00:04:01]And the man is not yet finished.

[00:04:06]Let's see how he has tried to foster robust communication and ease economic activity among the Anamberians by a system of road networks judged to be a regional best in Africa.

[00:04:23]Anambra state, one of the states south of the Sahara that is committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals 1 to 8.

[00:04:33]This it is doing successfully using the framework of the Anambra Integrated Development Strategy, ANIDS.

[00:04:43]One major Millennium Development Goal that is a key prerequisite for sustainable development is the ability of rural communities to be accessible or adequately serviced by good roads for the easy movement of people and goods to major towns and markets.

[00:05:04]Since Governor Peter Obi took over the reins of office, his administration has constructed and rehabilitated over 900 km of roads and still counting.

[00:05:16]The major objective here is to build a good network of roads and bridges that will open up access to the outside world for accelerated development, especially for communities that have been locked up for years.

[00:05:31]The people of Amansea through our family in Awka South are now connected by this new bridge over the Ezu River.

[00:05:39]When in 2005 the small existing bridge collapsed under heavy traffic, they found it cumbersome accessing the state capital and other parts of the state.

[00:05:51]Now with this bridge, they have an easy gateway to the state capital, Awka, and beyond.

[00:05:58]As all of us know, this road in the pumpkin was not able to be constructed to do well.

[00:06:05]Mhm.

[00:06:05]To ease the burden of commuting from Inyi to Umuezeanam, the Obiano administration awarded the construction of a new road that is 15 km in length.

[00:06:18]The road which runs through Otupu River means that a bridge had to be built over the river, which had cut off communities on either side.

[00:06:28]With the Otupu River bridge completed and the entire stretch of the 15 km road nearing completion, the [snorts] people of Inyi can now heave a sigh of relief as they are now connected to their kith and kin.

[00:06:41]But that is not all as their farm produce can now be easily evacuated to larger markets. Predominantly, the people living here, they are farmers.

[00:06:51]And after farming, you know, first of all, they wouldn't have good farming equipment. So, they use hoes and the rest to farm. After farming, although the land is very fertile, they will now suffer to use boats to go through the river to the urban centers like Umuoji and Onitsha to sell their farm produce.

[00:07:09]Sometimes because they can't take their farm produce back home, people tend to cheat them. They give them very low prices for their goods. And then at the end of the day, they come back home poor and empty again, you know. So, but with this road, everybody is just praying for the government because they never thought it possible for the It's not just that they built road, but the quality of the road.

[00:07:35]Aside from the bridge over Otupu River, the completion of the Odo bridge with stone pitching back months in Orumba North has provided a link to various communities in the same local government.

[00:07:48]It has indeed provided a shorter link for the people of Orumba South who would have had to travel over 90 minutes going through two local governments, Aniocha and Aguata respectively, to get to the state capital.

[00:08:02]Now, with the road completed, the journey takes about 20 minutes.

[00:08:07]It is simply wonderful.

[00:08:09]We never had it And to go to Aboh from Aboh to Aguluezechukwu takes you about 2 hours.

[00:08:18]But I believe after this road has been done, 15 minutes to Aguluezechukwu.

[00:08:24]The people of Okuna, Ukpo are also counting their gains as the Obiano administration has replaced the dangerous triple box culvert with the Bunabo bridge across the Abybia Okuno river.

[00:08:39]And with the height of the new bridge, the menace of floods on the road during the rainy season will no longer hinder them from their community.

[00:08:48]This road and bridge also connect communities in Okah North and Okah South.

[00:08:54]Normally, last year, last 2 years, this place used to be a hectic area during the rainy season.

[00:09:03]But now, with this, people have been happy feeling a a special grace of God.

[00:09:12]Within some years, it will be a thing of the past.

[00:09:18]Another very important road link nearing completion is the Aguluezechukwu-Ezinifite road.

[00:09:26]The Otara bridge, which is on the main alignment, connects two local governments, Aguata and Orumba North.

[00:09:33]Although it is still under maintenance, it is being used by the people, giving them the shortest link to each other.

[00:09:40]To access Lilu town in Ihiala local government, commuters have had to go through the neighboring state Imo.

[00:09:48]But with the completion of this beautiful road with large box culvert and drainages on both sides, the people have a different story to tell. I I don't come do this one.

[00:10:00]I'm very happy for for the work.

[00:10:03]See, before before you drop for here, if you are from Lagos or from any place, you drop for here and there's no lead, no road to lead lead you to your destination.

[00:10:15]Okay. Uh so, this is how our kind of people say no road, no road to lead.

[00:10:21]Just so of recent, I think it last last year they come come complete this one reach here up to Lilu here.

[00:10:30]The Nnewi A link road in Idemili South local government provide passage way not only out to the Onitsha-Enugu expressway without going through Awka, but it also provides the road for students to go to school.

[00:10:44]There are still numerous major road projects ongoing in the state.

[00:10:48]The Agulu bypass road and bridge project is earnestly under construction.

[00:10:55]The aim here is to replace the small bridge and dangerous curves on the road, which had in the past caused accidents with fatalities.

[00:11:04]These twin 105-m 12-m wide bridges, including 2-m walkways on either side, are being built at a height over 20 m, thus giving commuters a good view of the famous Agulu lake.

[00:11:20]Uh because of the nature of it, it it has so many bends.

[00:11:25]And for that reason, so many accidents used to occur from time to time. With this road, I think uh there have been a a lot of improvement. There have been smooth movement of traffic.

[00:11:37]And I'm sure it will reduce uh that uh menace, you know, that uh accident.

[00:11:45]Everything, we are more safe.

[00:11:47]Even the main road, even the drivers because the accident were there for a year.

[00:11:53]Just uh pray to God say we'll get a wise people in Nigeria now who who know better.

[00:11:59]Due to the undulating nature of the terrain and to further protect the road from being washed away during the rainy season, the line drains are being constructed on both sides of the 3-km stretch.

[00:12:14]The Ozubulu Atani Road and Bridget project is underway with the three bridges on the alignment already constructed.

[00:12:23]This 12-km road with various box culverts has retaining walls near the bridges to protect them from erosion.

[00:12:31]These people are mainly agrarian and will find this project, when completed, a huge relief from their present condition. This road is one of the worst road or path in Anambra State.

[00:12:46]But when we got the information that uh that there's uh plan to put the road in order, in fact, everybody was excited. We felt very very happy. And I must tell you that this uh present government has done a wonderful thing.

[00:13:06]>> All right, sir. Very wonderful.

[00:13:21]With the numerous road projects ongoing within the state, the Obi administration has taken measures to ensure quality and that the people get value for their money.

[00:13:32]Governor Obi has insisted that contractors handling their project sign a maintenance bond of 5 years.

[00:13:40]This has ensured the good quality of roads seen in the state. By the government, like this road, you will sign a bond with the government that you have to maintain this road. If it is not If it is a stone base road, you have to maintain it for 7 years.

[00:13:58]But if it is a lateritic road, base road, you maintain it for 5 years.

[00:14:04]So, the maintenance of this road will be done by the contractor for the next 5 years. So, if you like, you yourself. If you yourself, you continue You continue working on the road for the next 5 years. So, if you do a good road a good job, you go once and for all.

[00:14:22]They say health is wealth. How true.

[00:14:25]The maxim health is wealth holds true in Anambra state.

[00:14:30]As people need qualitative health care delivery to enjoy the developmental strides and projects being embarked upon by the state.

[00:14:39]In this wise, the Obi administration has converted the Amaku General Hospital into what is now the Anambra State University Teaching Hospital.

[00:14:50]This complex, located in the heart of the state capital, is the new pride of Anambra.

[00:14:57]With functional state-of-the-art facilities in the accident and emergency center, surgery, pathology center, intensive care, plus other integrated health care centers.

[00:15:10]These facilities are presently providing treatment to patients not only from Anambra, but from the adjoining states like Kogi and Enugu, whose communities border and Anambra state.

[00:15:24]Occasionally, foreign medical missions have come using the facilities in treating patients.

[00:15:31]The complex also serves the Anambra State University in its medical program.

[00:15:38]This place offers various forms of treatment for most orthopedic problems.

[00:15:44]We have a three orthopedic surgeons, I'm one of them, manning this place. So, most of the orthopedic problems that would would have taken most of our indigenous out of the state, out of Nigeria, are being managed in this setup.

[00:15:59]We also have other specialties and surgeries. We have two general surgeons.

[00:16:02]We have a three urologists.

[00:16:06]We have a one ear, nose, and throat surgeon. We have a uh five gynecologists and obstetricians. We have a pediatric surgeon, one of them.

[00:16:18]We have And then, they will have a two plastic surgeons.

[00:16:23]So, you can see that if you for example, if you use surgery to judge, you'll find out that almost all scopes of surgeries are covered in this hospital.

[00:16:33]In the Onitsha and Umuleri General Hospitals, the story is the same.

[00:16:38]The government has intervened with the provision of new facilities and equipment.

[00:16:44]There is now dialysis center at the General Hospital, Onitsha.

[00:16:50]This is Nawfia Psychiatric Hospital, which now wears a new look with a building of new offices and accommodation for patients.

[00:17:01]To further enhance primary health care delivery, the state government has partnered with various religious bodies that have already established hospitals.

[00:17:11]To this end, the Obi administration set aside grants worth billions of naira given directly to select missionary health care institutions.

[00:17:22]The money is provided to improve infrastructure for accommodation of staff and students and accredited programs.

[00:17:30]In the past, the state had distributed medical equipment valued over 135 million to 105 government and mission health care facilities across the state.

[00:17:44]One of such benefiting missions is the E and O Hospital in Ogidi, Odemili North Local Government Area, which is over 100 years old in providing primary health care to the people.

[00:17:58]Historically, it was the first school of midwifery east of the Niger and has delivered many prominent Anamberans, including Emeka Uyoku.

[00:18:09]To keep up the standard of churning out qualified midwives and nurses, the institution has built offices and classroom complexes, theaters, and doctors' quarters and is now capable of training 100 midwives and nurses yearly.

[00:18:27]They came and they saw health care as something that should be done uh for the masses and they they didn't they didn't saw us mission uh institution.

[00:18:46]Especially old ones such as us uh as collaborators in the provision of health care services because we do not serve people from the moon.

[00:18:57]The people we serve here are actually Anamber state's indigenous.

[00:19:03]Our Lady of Lourdes Ihiala has been able to use the grant from the state government to build the Madonna Hostel for School of Midwifery, the Immaculate Heart hostel for the school of nursing, and the hostel for the school of medical and laboratory sciences, which is nearing completion.

[00:19:22]Just recently, three gigantic structures have been also erected in the same direction to provide hostel accommodation for the students of medical laboratory, students of nursing, students of midwifery. And this has helped a great deal in promoting the school to the highest. I find the school is the best in the whole federation.

[00:19:44]The St. Joseph Hospital at Ezinnuku has built with this grant a general outpatient building wing and two hostels for the school of nursing and school of midwifery.

[00:19:56]Also, the state government has built the Dr. Mgiloh Heart Center.

[00:20:01]The people are looking forward to when the center will be fully operational and they can have the best heart care.

[00:20:09]Previously, people from the environment somehow uh you know, old place always um weaken the interest of the people. They always want new places. And so, being a aged and aged hospital, people then we are not that patronizing coming to assess their health here.

[00:20:30]But, through the intervention of the government and the projects going on, it started creating interest in the house of the people. And if you go out and into the world, you can also see even though the structures are not completely ready to render service to the people, but that impact of coming of the government has already created in the minds of the people that something is going on and that it really helped them and they are coming.

[00:21:00]They are still making use of the old structures within. They are assessing their health.

[00:21:06]With funds from the state government, St. Charles Borromeo School of Nursing, Fegge, Onitsha, is building a four-story complex that will house the School of Nursing and its hostel.

[00:21:18]It has already built befitting doctors' quarters and is currently building more staff quarters within the facility.

[00:21:32]This magnificent facility is the ultra-modern maternity complex within the Holy Rosary Specialist Hospital and Maternity, Waterside, Onitsha.

[00:21:43]The healthcare complex also has a new building for a School of Midwifery, which will be put to use as soon as the overhead water tank is completed.

[00:21:53]Also under construction and nearing completion is the Pharmaceutical Diagnostic Center.

[00:21:59]That you can see right behind me.

[00:22:01]This three-story building, maternity complex, housing the clinic, the delivery area, the postnatal area, the children ward.

[00:22:10]So, it has given a real positive impact to the output of the hospital. Yes, we've been known for quality and standard services, but now you have more accommodation, more room for effective services and proper treatment.

[00:22:25]One thing is evident, with the upgrading of the schools of nursing and midwifery owned by the missions, it's just a matter of time before a number of states starts to export highly qualified nurses and midwives to other parts of the country.

[00:22:43]Convinced that the loss of treasured values and discipline was as a result of government taking over missionary schools, the Obiano administration returned 1,040 schools to the Catholic and Anglican missions.

[00:22:58]He also disbursed funds to each of these institutions for them to on their own upgrade their facilities for a better standard of education.

[00:23:08]Going around the schools, one can see the huge improvements in the facilities and amenities in these institutions.

[00:23:20]The Obi administration has also impacted positively on tertiary institutions.

[00:23:27]The Anambra State University, now called Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, in its Igbariam campus has benefited from this administration as some of the faculties now have new blocks.

[00:23:43]The Faculty of Law, Agriculture, and the Department of Mass Communications.

[00:23:49]Not left out are some new quarters to house lecturers.

[00:23:54]The Obi administration has facilitated two new hostels being built by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

[00:24:02]And recently, he doled out 5 billion naira to the institution for continued infrastructural development.

[00:24:11]This is the College of Agriculture fitted with new classroom blocks, new laboratories, new male and female hostels.

[00:24:21]And the renovation has just started.

[00:24:29]From roads and bridges, integrated health care infrastructure, to qualitative education, these are in the reckoning of discerning observers. Snippets of the vision of the man and his administration implemented through the instrumentality of ANIDS.

[00:24:48]And the story continues.

[00:24:51]Let the facts speak for themselves.

[00:24:57]Politics, they say, is a game of numbers.

[00:25:00]But governance is more about delivering the numbers in infrastructure development.

[00:25:06]In Anambra state, it's significant to let the facts speak.

[00:25:14]As the Obi administration winds down, what are the indices of development, or shall we say performance across sectors, to suggest that the government of Anambra state has delivered on its promise?

[00:25:28]Here are the facts.

[00:25:31]Fact.

[00:25:32]He has created industrial parks to act as catalyst for industrialists and investors.

[00:25:39]He has also eliminated double and multiple taxations, which has encouraged industrialists in creating new jobs.

[00:25:49]Fact.

[00:25:50]He has built state-of-the-art business parks to enable middle-level businesses flourish.

[00:25:56]He has attracted the Central Bank of Nigeria to establish its presence in Anambra state, thus giving its citizens direct access to international financial transactions and business.

[00:26:10]Fact. He has taken development to the grassroots by providing infrastructures of strength for local government and upgrading of existing facilities.

[00:26:21]Fact.

[00:26:22]The pace of the dispensation of justice has received a boost with the setting up of the Federal Court of Appeal in the state.

[00:26:31]He has also built new facilities for customary courts in the state.

[00:26:37]Fact.

[00:26:38]He has provided hundreds of buses to all schools in the state to help their much-needed mobility.

[00:26:45]And he still funds schools that are under control of the dioceses of Imo state, but are situated in Anambra.

[00:26:54]Fact, he is partnering with private concerns in establishing mega shopping malls in Awka and Onitsha with another one to be cited in Nnewi.

[00:27:06]Fact, he's boosting tourism with the construction of two five-star hotels in Onitsha and Agulu.

[00:27:15]Fact, Governor Obi has tackled and remedied the menace of soil erosion in Akulobia, Agulu, and some other erosion-ravaged communities in Anambra State.

[00:27:29]This is the man.

[00:27:37]In any region of the world, industrialization is recognized as responsible for the spiraling growth of the economy.

[00:27:46]It therefore means that the collaborating focus of the managers of the economy, both government and private sector, would be on driving the critical plans that will establish a solid industrial base in the region.

[00:28:02]With his experience steeped in commercial banking and private business, the importance of industrialization was not lost on Governor Peter Obi.

[00:28:14]From the onset of his administration, he developed an economic blueprint that has attracted foreign manufacturing concerns to the state as well as encourage indigenous entrepreneurs.

[00:28:27]For one of the biggest foreign investments in this country in first quarter of this year came here.

[00:28:34]And all of that coming.

[00:28:36]And you can go to the hub and just see yourself.

[00:28:40]And then you can see within this government, the first truly common factoring facility in Nigeria came into being.

[00:28:49]The innocent motor fact and other things.

[00:28:53]So, it's a critical thing.

[00:28:56]Trying to do quite a lot and we show people by the time you come back, we're going to flag off other massive projects which no time will be completed.

[00:29:07]Starting with local manufacturers for whom access to funding is a major challenge, the Obi administration teamed up with the Bank of Industry to raise counterpart funding at very low interest rates to get manufacturers functioning at optimal capacity within the state.

[00:29:28]Taking a good step further, the state economic policy has eliminated multiple and double taxations, allowing businesses to expand, create more jobs, and record higher profits.

[00:29:42]The one that is very prominent in this government is establishment of APLOC, where if you make your payment to APLOC, it's once and for all.

[00:29:53]While before now, anybody whose a business goes down will go to a government house, collect one paper, and come to you and say I have been authorized to collect a going and coming levy.

[00:30:06]That if you go out of your house in the morning, you pay levy, you're coming back, you pay levy.

[00:30:11]And you don't question them.

[00:30:13]But now, today, you with your APLOC, you you nobody harasses you anymore.

[00:30:20]It's part of what I call industrial friendliness, which this government has introduced.

[00:30:26]If the infrastructures are not there, if you're setting up an industry, you cannot perform.

[00:30:31]The same way, even towards the northern part of the state, where they know that agriculture is their mainstay, you can see the amount of roads springing them there to make sure the foods are being evacuated from those area. So, the state government is doing very, very well. If you even go to Onitsha, you see the level of industries now in Onitsha city, you will marvel.

[00:30:54]No doubt, the pride of Anambra's industrialization drive is the establishment of what is arguably Nigeria's first indigenous auto manufacturing plant.

[00:31:07]Taking advantage of Governor Obi's economic policies, this plant is cited in Nnewi.

[00:31:14]The production plant's foundation stone was laid by Governor Peter Obi and commissioned by His Excellency Goodluck Jonathan, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

[00:31:26]The day it was Jonathan visited the factory there, he commissioned the factory, and he was so happy that Nigeria can do such factory in Nigeria, and um he was so happy, and he gave us a lot of encouragement.

[00:31:41]He gave us a lot of encouragement that makes us to be moved to develop it more.

[00:31:46]Because when you are doing thing and you see that your government is happy, you will try to do it more so that they will be more happy.

[00:31:53]Today, pickup trucks, mini and luxurious buses are manufactured here with a chassis and entire body parts fabricated from flat metal sheets.

[00:32:06]The headlights, bumpers, and interiors are also manufactured and fabricated in Nigeria.

[00:32:15]The federal and Anambra state governments have placed orders for hundreds of units of several of the vehicles, some of which are already part of the success story.

[00:32:26]When uh there is probably in the road, access to road to the factory, the governor told me no problem because that time we are worried no motor can be able to enter the factory.

[00:32:38]The governor said that we should not worry, that he'll make the road.

[00:32:41]In this few months, he made the road to the factory.

[00:32:45]When we started, and he see that the production is going well, uh the governor say, "Can we Are we producing now?" I say yes. He give us order of over 500 units to encourage the factory. That's the first order that we have.

[00:32:59]And he give second order after that. He have give us up to four orders since we started the factory, and he's giving us a large order, keeping the factory busy.

[00:33:11]For the Anambra state government, it has donated the pickup trucks to all community security outfits in the state, which has enhanced surveillance and created the relative peace now enjoyed by Anambrarians.

[00:33:45]Also seen plying interstate roads are the various types of buses ferrying commuters and goods.

[00:33:54]Many indigenous manufacturing companies producing top-of-the-range products have been established in Anambra state, with the prospect still bright for new entrants.

[00:34:06]These companies are taking advantage of the state-built Harbor Industrial Park, Onitsha.

[00:34:13]Situated by the banks of the River Niger, the Anambra government has turned this once flood-prone land into an industrial park with a network of good roads and drainages.

[00:34:26]It is not surprising these companies now have a peaceful conducive atmosphere for production and easy distribution of their goods to the major markets.

[00:34:41]Here in the Harbor Park is an indigenous manufacturer who has been able to expand his production line of bottle caps and other allied products into a fully automated plant that can turn out over 1.5 billion caps yearly.

[00:35:00]And another cheering news, it's providing employment for more than 700 people. And what we are seeing in Anambra state which is a the spring up of many industries is as a result of a government enabling environment which they provided. The government is industrial friendly.

[00:35:26]This industrial friendliness is what you see when you look around the Harbor industrial layout with the kind of infrastructure the government has put on ground.

[00:35:38]This industrial friendliness is also seen in government policy in tackling what we call multiple taxation.

[00:35:49]Also in the Harbor Park is a foreign-based firm which started production about 4 years ago in Anambra state after the completion of its new automobile factory.

[00:36:01]Using state-of-the-art equipment, they produce various beverages of international standards.

[00:36:09]This by creating direct employment for hundreds of Nigerians, the project exports potentially also create hundreds and more through distribution, marketing, and sales chain.

[00:36:23]As more companies spring up in the state, taking advantage of Governor Peter Obi's administration's economic blueprint, Anambra, in the eyes of some observers, is fast becoming the Taiwan of Africa.

[00:36:40]To strengthen the financial sector, the Obi administration was able to domicile the services of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN in the state by the provision of operational accommodation until they were able to build their own office.

[00:36:57]This has allowed business concerns in the state to have at their doorstep the financial services of CBN.

[00:37:06]Before now, Anambrarians would have had to go to other states to get these same services.

[00:37:14]The construction of the financial and ICT business parks in Onitsha have shown Governor Obi's determination to ensure that Anambrarians have equal opportunities and adequate financial assistance that could be gotten elsewhere in the country.

[00:37:33]The judiciary is the last bastion of hope for the common man.

[00:37:38]And being a strong advocate for the rule of law, Governor Obi has provided modern infrastructure to the Anambra state judiciary to facilitate the dispensation of justice.

[00:37:53]To Iset, he has built befitting accommodations for judges in the state.

[00:38:00]He provided an operational base for the Federal High Court in Awka before they built their own office.

[00:38:08]He has also strengthened the customary courts in the rural areas with the building of new infrastructure.

[00:38:15]With these developments, the common saying that justice delayed is justice denied will not hold sway much longer in Anambra state.

[00:38:26]To boost tourism in the state and as part of the Obi administration's private public partnership initiative, the state government has partnered with globally renowned hospitality chains and commenced the construction of two hotels, one in Agulu, over seeing the famous Agulu lake, and the other in the heart of the commercial town of Onitsha.

[00:38:52]These hotels, when completed, will provide the luxury and hospitality that is obtainable anywhere else in the world.

[00:39:02]Widely reputed as an astute businessman, Governor Peter Obi understands the importance of mega shopping malls, which Nigerians often visit when overseas on trips.

[00:39:15]To promote such large-scale retail shopping, he has partnered with private investors to build two mega shopping malls, one in Awka, the state capital, and the other in Onitsha.

[00:39:29]This is a shopping mall, very big shopping mall for the city of Awka. If you want to shop, it's a one-stop-over shopping mall. You can buy everything you want from this shopping mall. And it's got the state government under Governor Peter Obi is doing it in conjunction with uh private participators. So, the private people can easily come here, arrange their shops. The governor do know fully well that when these industries are growing up, there must be hospitality business there. That's why he's doing a very big hotel at Onitsha, too. And another shopping mall at Onitsha. So, you can see that this governor has really thought about how to develop the state and is really tackling them very, very diligently. And he's doing very, very well on that.

[00:40:13]These shopping malls with thousands of square meters of shopping space will not only provide the people of Anambra a one-stop shopping destination but also provide a serene atmosphere for recreation.

[00:40:37]Anambra state has a peculiar ecological challenge.

[00:40:41]One that endangers the existence of the entire state.

[00:40:45]The menace of acute soil erosion.

[00:40:48]Which engulfs the entire state resulting in the creation of deep gullies.

[00:40:54]Although other Eastern states are plagued with somewhat the same problem.

[00:40:59]Anambra state situation is a bit different.

[00:41:02]Because unlike other states where erosion is in just a few areas in the states.

[00:41:08]Anambra's erosion activity can be found in almost every local government area of the state.

[00:41:15]Anambra state have the worst erosion problem in sub-Saharan Africa.

[00:41:22]You know, the state is being washed away.

[00:41:26]It's even to a large extent in the South East. But Anambra state is the worst.

[00:41:31]Despite this enormous challenge posed by gully erosion in the state.

[00:41:36]The Obi administration is ever determined in achieving the Millennium Development Goals MDGs by 2015.

[00:41:45]As environmental sustainability is encapsulated in Millennium Development Goal number seven.

[00:41:52]With its limited resources. The Peter Obi administration has been able to record some significant achievements in trying to save the lives and the properties of its citizens and her communities.

[00:42:05]To the credit of the present state administration.

[00:42:09]The impending erosion disaster in Umuchina in Colombia has been checked.

[00:42:15]The completion of the flood and gully erosion control works in Colombia has brought succor to the entire community.

[00:42:23]They no longer live in fear of loss of life or property.

[00:42:27]I'm very happy about the governor's action.

[00:42:30]Because if not him I don't know what we have become some part of as of now.

[00:42:35]So we are very grateful for the work the governor is doing. We appreciate it so much. Particularly the people. For a long time really. It had been disturbing us.

[00:42:45]I'll see. Many governments or many people have made some attempts to you know, to alleviate that problem but they could not do it. But this government as as I'm seeing have a solution to that problem. Another major achievement in this sector is the curbing of the gully erosion affecting others in the Mudiana communities.

[00:43:10]To effectively address the situation the state government has built a channel of reinforced concrete to create a permanent outlet for water into the river below.

[00:43:23]To safeguard the entire community, a 6 km network of huge concrete drains have been constructed within the community.

[00:43:32]So as water flows from all parts of it it is properly channeled into the major drainage system. Saving the community from loss of soil and destruction.

[00:43:43]Also in the village near which near where the local government the community was on the verge of being washed away by the forming gully erosion.

[00:43:56]The administration has tackled impending threat to this road. Reinforced concrete barriers have been installed with huge channels to receive the waters taking it to the river below.

[00:44:09]The landlords and residents of Agu Awka Avenue, Awka, have heaved a sigh of relief as the state government has come to their aid, saving their road and properties, which were under threat of being eroded away.

[00:44:22]The government has curbed this threat with a subsequent award and execution of the remedial measures to arrest the situation.

[00:44:31]If you know if you know if you know Peter Obi for this see to kill all this relation. This building by this time is one of this building.

[00:44:39]But this place you reach this this this building before.

[00:44:43]Peter Obi secure this building. If you know Peter Obi for Governor Soludo this building was only accept his good work. Many building have been they supposed to fall by now. But we thank him because he have tried to save life and property for those who live around this town.

[00:45:00]In every development process, in every administrative capacity or level of governance, the results seen are only a reflection of the quality and vision of the leadership driving the process.

[00:45:16]In Anambra