A Call To Focus More In Developing Ayamelum LGA Of Anambra

A Call To Focus More In Developing Ayamelum LGA Of Anambra

By Raymond Okoye, the eyes of Ayamelum TV.

I will first congratulate Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo on the winning of the mandate of Ndi Anambra at large which Ayamelum local government played a vital role.
Once again, congratulations your Excellency. Pease permit me to address you as His Excellency for the last time.

Ayamelum Local Government Area is the most under-developed Local government in Anambra State despite the fact that we are the food basket of Anambra State.

As you’re being sworn in tomorrow, we want to plead with you to include Ayamelum people in your work. We have been played and fooled by previous administrations. We place our last hope in you.

WHAT EXACTLY DOES AYAMELUM PEOPLE WANT FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT?

An average Ayamelum youth is a commercial farmer but the major challenges facing us are:

1. ROAD: we don’t have access road to our various farms. Most of the communities in Ayamelum don’t even have a tarred road, none connects us to one another. Umerum Omor road can be linked to Awka the capital city of Anambra State through Oba ofe milli, in order to make it easier for our people to transport their goods from farm directly to the capital city without much stress. Your Excellency there is no commercial bank in Ayamelum as a result of one road entry. Banks have refused to come in because they are afraid of being robbed during the transfer of cash, as Ayamelum has only an access road. If the above road is linked, there will be more development and it’ll fasten the development of communities in Ayamelum.

2.IRRIGATION AND OTHER MECHANIZED FARMING SYSTEM: If our canals are cleaned up and irrigation fixed, Ayamelum people will start dry season farming and with that, food such as rice, potatoes, ugu leaves, cassava, yam and tomatoes, will be surplus in the State. Tomatoes? Yes. A lot of people don’t know that Ayamelum people produce tomatoes, but due to lack of access road and constant electricity, we produce little to avoid damages. Adani rice is produced in Ayamelum. Adani people used to come and buy it from our farms, then process it in their place. If the government makes available good harvesters, more tractors, more rice mills and other farming tools such as fertilizer and chemicals to our people, they will do more.

Our expectation is too high on Charlie nwa Mgbafor, he’s our last hope in the State government.
May God bless you as you begin work.