A real estate developer, My-ACE China, has called on the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara to remove all bottlenecks hindering the growth of businesses in the state.
China, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Housing and Construction Mayor Limited, made the call while speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
He said, “The most important thing for the government is clarity of processes and removal of bottlenecks. For instance, when the former federal administration of (former President) Olusegun Obasanjo wanted to succeed in drugs, they put somebody that was non-political in the person of the late Dora Akunyili to head that agency. It was to make sure that political and bureaucratic bottlenecks were removed.
“First of all, the government has to be very mindful of the individuals that will handle whatever agency that will be placed with the responsibility of the resolutions that will come out of this summit.
“This is because having a clear vision, having clear agenda and clear intentions is one thing, but having individuals with the competence, character, and resistance to bribery and other inducement to be able to birth that vision and agenda in practical implication is more important than having those agencies.
“This is because you might have agencies for those visions and those agenda, if they are the same political agencies filled with the same bureaucratic bottlenecks of Nigerian agency, you will find that the difficulty of passing through those agencies to get your business through is back to the same old business of difficulty of doing business and the government intention might not get to the real business practitioners.”
He stated that his company is trying to compliment efforts of the Fubara-led administration, which is building a 20,000 low-cost houses in Aluu community in Ikwerre local government area of the state and replicate the project at Eleme local government area of the state.
He said, “What we are doing is that the Mayor of Housing is bringing a sustainable city development to Port Harcourt in the Eleme axis. It is at the preliminary stage but people are calling it the New Banana Island.
“We are hoping to have audience with the governor very soon so that we can streamline the details of this housing estate. But believe me, it will have some of the first of its kind facilities and infrastructure in Nigeria in that place. It will be eco-friendly.
“It will be cost-friendly even though it will be a luxury estate for the high-end earners. It will be running Pari-Passu and would balance out the 20,000 low-cost housing by this same Fubara administration and it is going on toward the Ikwerre area.”