(PRESS STATEMENT)
Under the coming African Democratic Congress (ADC), Anambra State will not witness citizens being brutalised in the streets by officials of the state for any reason particularly on security issues or revenue collection, John Chuma Nwosu, the governorship candidate of the party, has said, maintaining that the government would rely on modern way of both seamlessly.
Nwosu who spoke at the inauguration of the John Chuma Nwosu Governorship Campaign Council (JCN-GCC), who described both the optics and loud complaints coming from the state daily in this regard promised a total change method adding that his administration would run on Smart Model, where the entire state would wired using hi-tech security architecture, not only to detect, but combat crimes with promptness and precision in a manner that would not be at variance with psyche of the people.
At the ceremony, which took place inside the conference room of the JCN Secretariat and campaign headquarters in Awka, the Anambra State capital at the weekend, the ADC candidate, emphasised that modern society had since moved away from the use of thugs and enforcers to brutalise citizens in whatever guise.
Tracking criminals and fighting crimes will be a function of hi-tech such as in modern societies where crimes could be detected in split-seconds through a network of alarm bells that would trigger off the relevant agencies that would move to check them within the same split-seconds.
The streets would be devoid of the eyesore optics of crudity where all manner of brutality are unleashed on citizens in the guise of fighting crimes, adding: “We will introduce the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI-enabled) security system that will run on face-recognition technology with a fully-equipped Command and Control (CAC) centre.”
Stating that the government would tackle issues of Security, Health, Education, Environment, Markets and Social Welfare (SHEEMS) Agenda, he said the administration would run with the mindset of empathy, emotional intelligence and consideration for the people, adding that building the human infrastructure would take precedent over the physical structures.
We cannot run a state where the people are separated from the government. We will concentrate on building the people so that they will become the driving force in building and enhancing those infrastructures. If you don’t build a society where people are sure of their next meal, no matter what you put in place as infrastructure, is likely to be destroyed by the same people. So, our strategy under the SHEEMS Agenda is to ensure a buoyant public structure, based on mutual trust.
“Our Anambra must be devoid of incentives for crimes by providing the people a sense of ownership of government. Government will not run on them and us basis. Achieving that will be the springboard for the quantum leap we envisage will happen in the next four years that our administration will last,” he said.
Healthcare would also take similar pattern of modernity by procuring hi-tech medical facilities, with focus on first-class assessable and affordable programmes anchored on Primary Health Care (PHC), complete with Emergency Medical and Transport Services (EMTS), he said.
Education would run basically on the STEM model of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – the current global prototype to equip the children of the state with the ability of grappling with modern developments, in addition to the current system, with the focus of standing out once again as national bests in the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and the National Education Council (NECO) examinations.
“We shall deliver a new infrastructural map for Anambra State with a solid Road Maintenance Department (RMD) similar to the PWD (Public Works Department) in compliance with the Anambra Integrated Development Strategy (ANIDS).” Recall that ANIDS was the template with which Peter Obi, former Governor of the state, achieved the feat of becoming the national best in the global programme called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), for which he was invited to give a speech by the United Nations in 2014.”
In his Markets programme, Nwosu spoke ending the excessive taxing in the state rather than choking the people, stating: “To enhance enterprises and improve ease of doing business, we will ensure tax reduction and our means of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) recovery will have human face. We shall deploy technology in revenue collection instead of the use of thugs.”
Social Welfare – the last in his robust programme, he talked extensively on empathy towards the poor in the society, stating that the state would come into the aide of “members of our state population, who are indigent, fall on hard times or face catastrophes, especially in housing assistance, food and nutrition charity healthcare, orphanage or indigent child support while providing supplementary security income for the aged.”
E-Signed:
Sunny Igboanugo
Director of Media and Publicity, John Chuma Nwosu Governorship Campaign Council (JCN-GCC).
