SEE THE $1 TRILLION PLANNED ECONOMY BY ND’IGBO IN 2030
By Ayo Akinfe
(1) The five states of the southeast geo-political zone will float a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses with a maximum interest rate of 5%
(2) Every year, at least
200 Abriba and Ohafia cobblers will be sent to China to be trained on modern
shoe production. The aim is to build the world’s largest shoe and leather
accessories factory in Aba that eventually supplies the global mass market as
well as all the major brands including the likes of Gucci and Luis Vuitton
(3) We will build the
world’s largest pharmaceutical plant in Orlu. Every year, at least 500 local
people will be trained as pharmacists. They will then register their chemists
as a chain of stores called Orlu Pharmaceuticals that is vertically integrated
to this factory. That way, we can trace the origins of every single drug in
Nigeria
(4) Nnewi will be home to
the world’s largest car engine factory. Aggressively pushed by the Anambra
State government who will hold a 15% stake in the venture, a holding
company will be created between Innoson
and international automobile companies like Nissan, Peugeot, Volkswagen,
Renault, Toyota etc. It will aim to manufacture at least 1m engines and gear
boxes a year
(5) A pan-Igbo holding
company called Isiagu Enterprises will be created to drive investment. The five
state governments of the southeast will hold a 25% stake in it, with
international partners and the private sector owning the rest
(6) Isiagu Enterprises
will commit to building five crossings across the River Niger. At least three
of them will be rail links
(7) Isiagu Enterprises
will also commit to dredging the River Niger up to Onitsha with the aim of
building the world’s largest inland port. It will be Africa’s largest cargo
port
(8) Isiagu Enterprises
will lease land in states like Taraba, Niger, Borno and Kaduna with the aim of
growing cash crops to fuel its industries. Ambitious targets will be set for
agricultural output with the aim of quadrupling the production of cash crops like
palm oil, yam, cassava, maize, kolanuts, cashews, etc. Nigeria must grow every
raw material it uses in its food processing business
(9) Isiagu Enterprises
will also undertake to dredge Ikot-Abasi and Calabar ports so they can take big
ships like Apapa. Rail links will then be constructed linking them with the
rest of the country.
(10) Isiagu Enterprises
will introduce the world’s most humane corporate social responsibility contract
that will fund education and infrastructure development in the host communities
where it operates. For instance, if it is sourcing leather from Dapchi in Yobe
State for its shoe processing factory, Isiagu Enterprises will fund the
construction of a primary school there.
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Ayo Akinfe, is a London-based journalist who has worked as a magazine
and newspaper editor for the last 29 years. He was the founding editor of
Nigerian Watch, the UK-based paper for the Nigerian community in the UK, which
has today grown to become the largest ethnic minority title in the country.
A keen blogger, social network commentator and political
analysis, Ayo is also the author of two books. Fuelling the Delta Fires is an expose which reveals the depth of
the challenges Nigeria faces in the Niger Delta, while Black Ladder is a
narrative about the life of a Nigerian immigrant in the UK.
Ayo is also a columnist for several publishing houses in
both Nigeria and the UK including the UK Guardian, the Nigerian Guardian, the
BBC, Punch, Vanguard and Nigerian Village Square. Ayo has a history degree from
the University of Ibadan and did his post-graduate studies in journalism at the
University of Westminster in the UK.
He is currently working on several other books due to be
published soon. In addition, Ayo is a community activist, being the president
of Ondo Union UK, the chairman of Uncelebrated Nigerian Awards UK and was the
chairman of the Nigerian Centenary Awards UK organising committee that honoured
the most outstanding Nigerians in Britain between 1914 and 2014.
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