Anambra State Government has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to bestow commensurate national honours on two indigenes of the state in appreciation of their path-changing contributions to national development.
According to the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr C. Don Adinuba, government made the request for the conferment of high national honours on the chairman of Air Peace, Chief Allen Onyeama, and the Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Motor Manufacturing Company, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, in a letter Governor Willie Obiano sent to President Mohammadu Buhari .
Mr Adinuba explained that the government’s recommendation to Buhari was against the backdrop of the second Embraer plane from which Air Peace acquired recently out of the thirteen it ordered from the Brazilian manufacturer to boost its local and regional operations and the honorary doctoral degree which the University of Calabar conferred on the Innoson chairman at the weekend.
According to Governor Obiano, the whole nation remembers with nostalgia how Chief Onyema sent his wide-bodied aircraft to South Africa two years ago to bring back free of charge, hundreds of Nigerians stranded in the country when South Africans launched xenophobic attacks Nigerians.
The governor stated that if not for Chief Onyeama’s intervention since 2014, the Nigerian civil aviation industry would have collapsed or be in comatose.
Governor Obiano commended the carrier for reviving and developing airports across the country like Akure Airport in Ondo State which he noted, were practically abandoned for years.
The Governor equally described the Innosson Chairman as a revolutionist in the country’s quest for industrial development.
According to Governor Obiano, not even the colossal government failure to sustain motor assembly plants in Nigeria over the decades could deter Innoson, who went into business with modest means as motorcycle seller, from dreaming big and building the nation’s first motor manufacturing firm, adding that the constant and remarkable improvements in Innoson vehicles have added to their competitiveness on both quality and price.
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