Senator Samuel Anyanwu, the candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, has pledged to create over 23,000 jobs in the first 100 days of office if elected, ahead of the governorship election in Imo State on November 11.
In order to quell violence in the state, Anyanwu further said that he will provide amnesty to agitating youths in Imo, same as the late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua did in the Niger Delta in 2009.
The President’s action increased crude oil production and brought tranquility back to the area.
Anyanwu made this claim on Friday when speaking to Imo natives and spare part dealers in Port Harcourt.
He said, “The former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, is my friend. He was part of the people who enabled my emergence as the National Secretary of the PDP.
“In the next few days, Imo State will wear a new look. Imo State will work. Go to Rivers State, you can see physical developmental infrastructure, Rivers State is an oil-producing state just like Imo State.
“But where are the infrastructures in Imo State from oil derivatives? Imo State gets an allocation of over N5 billion every month and there is nothing to show for it.
“Over 2,000 youths have been killed in Imo State, in Orsu LGA, Oru East LGA young men are being killed every day in the name of IPOB and ESN. Every young boy is been killed there and tagged IPOB and ESN.
“From January 15 when I am sworn in, I will live in Imo State to solve the problem of tge state. Within six months, I will conduct the LGA election, people will be employed.
“I will give amnesty to our brothers in the bush, I will dialogue with them and reintegrate them into the society. That is what the late Yar’adua did in the Niger Delta. You don’t use bombings to fight crime, you use dialogue and peace.”
Anyanwu who is the incumbent National Secretary of the PDP, lamented that local government election has not been conducted in Imo State for the past eight years. No employment for the people.”
While noting that 2009 was the last time medical doctors were employed in Imo, he said, “Those 10,000 civil servants that Ikedi Ohakim employed and were later sacked, I will re-employ them.
“We are going to train and re-trained our public school teachers and ensure that our public schools compete with private schools.
“Today we have less than 30 doctors in Imo State. I will take care of the primary health centres, I will employ doctors. No community in Imo doesn’t have at least one doctor, but because there has been no employment, many of them have gone abroad.
He decried the insecurity in Imo State, saying Information and Communication Technology hubs will be set up to encourage people to set up businesses at home.
“And when you bring your business home, I am assuring you that there will be no multiple taxation and there will be security.
“Before now, at weekends all the hotels in Imo State used to be booked. But today, once it’s 6 pm nobody comes into the state again, either from Anambra, Enugu, Abia or Port Harcourt.
“Today 40 percent of hotels in Imo State are up for sale. All the people who were employed in these hotels and eateries have been sacked. A hungry man is an angry man.”
“We also going to mobilise our people at home to ensure the vote out insecurity next Saturday.”
On his part, the Igbo Youth Leader in Rivers State, Mr Charles Ibekwe, assured Igbo youths of electing the governorship candidate next Saturday.
