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The Eze Ndigbo Ifako Ijaiye, Lagos State, Eze Michael Ezekwobi (Oyiomanatumba Nɗigbo Gbaagburugburu) has commended Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State on the tree planting exercise he launched in Anambra State, even as he urges Nigeria political elite to emulate the selfless service of the late premier of Old South Eastern Region, Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara.
The late politician son, Uzodinma Okpara, who is the CEO of Michael Okpara Foundation, during a programme on Arise Television declared that his fathere choose to remain poor because he wanted food to be on the table of those he governed back then.
The younger Okpara had recalled his encounter with his father when he visited him in his two room apartment in Dublin Ireland in 1973. ” My father had told me: ‘ I know you would be wondering that after I have served as premier for over six years, I couldn’t build a house in Nigeria or even have property abroad. The reason is that I want food on the table of the people of Eastern Nigeria.’
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“To achieve this, my father established farm settlements across the region. he also built industries and hospitality industries across the South Eastern region. Some of them, like Golden Guinea Breweries , Ogbudu Cattle ranch, and Trans Amadi Industrial layouts in PortHarcourt, are still functioning.”
Eze Ezekwobi thus urged state Governors to establish farm settlements in rural areas in their state to curb unemployment as well as fight the hunger and hardship facing the country today.
“The measure will also discourage hoodlums that use some of our forest as their hideout fòr kidnapping and other atrocities.
