Anambra state Governor Opens Bidding For Internally Generated Revenue Concessions

Governor Chukwuma Soludo has reiterated his commitment to running a transparent government that will have direct impact on the people.

Governor Soludo gave the assurance on the occasion of open bidding for internally generated revenue concessions conducted at the Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Center, Awka.

The open bidding for sanitation fees, commercial tolls, agricultural produce inspection, loading and offloading for heavy duty trucks, sand beach, environmental remediation, borough pit, among other concessions were conducted.

Addressing the gathering, Governor Soludo noted that the idea of having an open and transparent bidding process was to usher in a transparent system for revenue collection in the state thereby shutting all the existing windows.

He noted that Anambra citizens cannot wait to have a livable and prosperous smart state, and maintained that the whole essence was to scale up the state Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, to enable the it meet up the set targets for the people and the future of the state.

Soludo emphasised that Anambra will soon begin to witness simultaneous road construction across the state.

He called on the prospective winners of each section to live up to expectations adding that the execution is expected to come in a way that will not make people go through extraordinary hardship.

The Deputy Governor Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Anambra State Internally Generated Revenue, Mr Richard Maduebo, National President Anambra State Association of Town Unions Barrister Titus Akpudo, among other top government functionaries attended the event.

Hauwa Abu