The governorship hopeful further noted that youth unemployment and poverty have been established to be two major factors engendering insecurity in the country, adding that the development economic plans by his administration would create thousands of jobs that will end unrest and agitation among the youths.
He harped on his resolve to exploit the dormant resources in the state to create more jobs for the citizens by turning them to productive assets that would engage the youths and make them useful to the society.
While assessing the possibility of creating over 400,000 jobs in each senatorial zone in the state through the agriculture sector, Mbah maintained that the hideouts of criminals in the state would be cleared and designated as special economic zones for commercial farming.
On how he would adopt the kinetic approach, the business magnate stated that his administration would strengthen intelligence gathering, employ modern technology such as the CCTV and drones for surveillance, training and retraining of security personnel and collaborate with communities to enhance community policing.
This, he said, would enable investors find the state attractive for investment, and restore the confidence of farmers to go back to work without fear of molestation.
Mbah, who further spoke on other issues, promised that his administration would speed up efforts to grow the economy seven-fold by migrating it from its current $4.4 billion to $30 billion by making it one of the top three states in the country.
He promised to achieve a zero per cent hunger in the state within eight years of his administration through integrated rural development programmes, cross-cutting progra-mmes, technical and vocational training centres, availability of 100 billion naira revolving capital for start-up investors, provisions of basic amenities and other incentives.
Assessing Mbah’s presentation, the Bishop of the Diocese, His Lordship John Okoye, commended his manifesto, which they’d previously gone through, as comprehensive, convincing and assuring, saying he had their support because of his good intentions for the state.
He recalled how the governorship candidate had been going about feeding the poor, building state-of-the-art hospital, engendering development and touching lives even with his personal resources.
Meanwhile, ahead of next year’s general elections, the association of different religious bodies and various ethnic groups residing in Enugu State under the aegis of Brethren of Interfaith and Inter-community Development Initiative, have thrown their total support behind Mbah.
Speaking today in Enugu when the group paid a solidarity visit to the governorship frontrunner, the group’s Director General and Secretary, Christian Association of Nigeria, Enugu State Chapter, Onuorah Okeke, disclosed that they decided to rally together because of someone like Mbah who has the credibility, competence and capacity to deliver on the mandate of the people.
