The Anioma State Creation Movement has renewed its call for the creation of Anioma State.
It claimed that the proposed state holds more strategic and economic advantages than other state creation proposals from the Southeast.
In a statement by the Media Director of the Anioma State Creation Movement, Chief Tonnie Oganah, the group said the proposed Anioma State would bring “real value” to the Southeast by adding both human and infrastructural strength to the region.
According to Oganah, the proposed state capital, Asaba, already has the necessary infrastructure to function effectively as a state capital, unlike other proposed capitals.
“Asaba is already a going concern with a modern and fully functional international airport, a state-of-the-art secretariat, commissioners’ quarters, high courts, magistrate and customary courts, judges’ quarters, several universities and higher institutions, tarred roads, shopping malls, banks, hospitals, a film village, and federal institutions,” Oganah said.
Highlighting its economic prospects, Oganah noted that Anioma would contribute over 6,400 square kilometres of dry land to the Southeast, an area the region currently lacks, as well as several rivers and railway lines that could boost trade and connectivity.
