The former members of the Enugu State House of Assembly, have commended Governor Peter Mbah for his concerted moves to revamp the dilapidated Hotel Presidential, Enugu by awarding a contract for its rehabilitation take off.
The group also commended the governor for promising that he would resuscitate ailing industries in the state.
The former assembly members made their views known in a statement by the chairman, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia.
They posited that Mbah has veered into areas conspicuously neglected and abandoned by his predecessors.
“The former lawmakers of the Enugu State House of Assembly commends the governor of Enugu state, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, for awarding a contract for the revamping of Hotel Presidential, Enugu.”
In a press release, the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr. Aka Eze Aka and the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Dame Ugochi Madueke, added that the government of Enugu state was also perfecting the terms of agreement for the resuscitation of the state-owned Nigergas Company Limited, Emene, Enugu.
“Any patriotic Enugu indigene who visits the Hotel Presidential Port Harcourt will weep for Enugu state; and would wonder if Enugu is jinxed. The administration of Dr. M I Okpara built Hotel Presidential in Enugu and also in Port Harcourt.
“While successive governments in Rivers State have maintained and even improved on the structures of the edifice, that of Enugu has been abandoned to rotten by the previous governments in the state.
“It is important to note that at the creation of Enugu state in August 1991, there were the Sunrise Flour Mills, Emene; Hotel Presidential, Enugu; Ikenga Hotels, Enugu and Nsukka; Star Printing and Publishing Company (Daily Star); and Enugu State Broadcasting Service.
“Others are Enugu State Transport Company; Niger-Gas, Niger Steel, Anambra Vegetable Oil (AVOP), Nachi; Ohebedim Aluminum; Games Village, Awgu and many others.
Almost all the above parastatals had enjoyed three shifts of workers on a daily basis under the Old Anambra state government. But, today, some of them are the habitats for trees, wild animals, snakes, rats and rodents.
“One is left to imagine the joy in the heart of the former lawmakers of Enugu state by the cheering news that Governor Peter Mbah has broken the jinx by signing a contract to revamp the Hotel Presidential, Enugu; and that he is determined to resuscitate the Nigergas”.
