Wife of Dunukofia Local Government chairman, Anambra State, Lady Ogechukwu Okeke, has said that the N500 million raised by Governor Willie Obiano at a security fund raising in Lagos by Anambra people showed the tremendous support and confidence his people have in him. She spoke to Daily Sun during a tour of the local government area by the wife of the governor, Mrs Eberechukwu Obiano. Excerpts:
Visit of the governor’s wife
The “thank you visit” has endeared her to women in rural areas, especially the less privileged, physically challenged, old people and youths.
We have agreed to support the administration’s community policing policy. There would be total war on student cultism and hooliganism as advocated by the governor’s wife. We have been reassured on security, road construction, agriculture and health care by the governor’s wife. We are praying for her husband, Deputy Governor Nkem Okeke, his wife and the administration.
I want to thank Obiano for the appointment of Dr Victoria Nkechi Chikwelu as Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development. I am appealing for more appointments for our people. Our children are jobless. I am appealing that they be included in the mechanized agricultural program of the state. We also need more nurses in our health centers.
Anything done to make women self-reliant should be encouraged and supported. We are giving Obiano and wife maximum support. She has mandated us to look for land for fishery project and enough land for the mechanized agriculture targeted at job creation for youths to fight crime and idleness.
Goals and objectives in joining politics
It has been tough and tasking but then, interesting to serve your people. I am home to contribute positively to service to humanity and to assist impact on development and growth of our rural communities. I am in politics to correct the impression that it is always to fill the pockets and not service. That is why I encouraged my husband to contest and I will not only support my husband, I will compliment his efforts in my own little way by championing the course of my people especially women and youths.
I want to focus mainly on girl child education, maternal and child healthcare and women empowerment, then youths empowerment too because they are the future leaders.
Leading with transparency
The first measure I took towards ensuring transparency in the discharge of my duties was to set  up a committee of men and women of moral values on any project or issues we want to tackle. Beyond that, there is an existing framework that ensures accountability thus making it almost impossible for any member of the committee members to misbehave. My husband and I and luckily his team vowed to be transparent in anything we are doing here in Dunukofia council area. We carry out our activities with necessary approval from state and inputs from relevant quarters.
All the materials donated by the Governor’s wife would get to the rightful candidates, the less privileged, the Orphans and Vulnerable children (OVC) as well as the widows.
Impacts of the visit 
The visit ignited the fire that seemed to be lacking in my pet project thus making it now to be unquenchable. That visit will see the senatorial zones in the state having homes for the elderly by the wife of the governor, through her Caring Family Enhancement Initiatives (CAFÉ) pet project.
She promised to empower with skill acquisition, education, health care, farming, small-scale businesses, etc, for the betterment of women. She wants to assist in poverty reduction. She is identifying with the psychically challenged children, orphans and the vulnerable. She promised to train and educate children out of school.
She gave out over 1,000 bags of rice seedlings, beans seedlings, maize seedlings, fertilizer, exercise books and N10,000 each to over 2,000 widows, indigent women, physically challenged and school children in the areas she visited. She needs our support and the rural women’s cooperation to make her programmes succeed.
Support to security apparatus in the state
I commend the chairman, my husband and his deputy, Chief Anigbogu with their team for the wonderful works they have done in ensuring that properties and lives of  Dunukofia citizens are secured. The state has contributed significantly in the area of providing the neighbourhood watch, security men with sophisticated electronic equipment and gadgets for effective communication.
Our crime-bursting Governor Obiano, with the support of his wife has done much in that regards. You can see how Anambra people rallied round to donate a whopping N500 million in just a night to support security of life and property. The governor went to Abuja for security fund raising and got over N100 million in a swoop.
Anambra is ranked one of the best secured states. The former governor laid the foundation of continuity government. Obiano is all out to fight criminals and kidnappers who have ravaged the state, scaring away investors and tourists. Now, businesses are coming back and investors have lined up both in agriculture and brewery and other areas.
The Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency (ANSIPPA), revealed that the state received about 120 enquiries from investors across the world in the past four months of this administration. Last May, Obiano commissioned the Coched Farms Project at Anaku in Ayamelum LG, with the capacity to produce 120,000 metric tons of rice.
His administration has attracted over $220 million investments including Joseph Agro Limited that is investing $150 million in agriculture and Cardinal Developers and Trust Ltd that is investing $70 million in hospitality and tourism. Joseph Agro has capacity to produce 120,000 metric tons of rice. Cardi-nal Developers will create 400 direct jobs and 2,000 indirect jobs.

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