The chairman and chief executive officer of the Imo State Investment
Promotion Agency, ISIPA, Hon. Harmony Aguoru, has assured investors of
the state
government’s readiness to accommodate and support upright
investors, whose business in the state would add value to the lives of
the people and the economy of the state.
Hon. Aguoru made the statement in a meeting with Malaysian investors
in his office recentlty
He listed other criteria for giving them enabling environment to do
business in the state to include bringing their technology in the
state to afford them easy and cheaper production and access to labour,
saying in that way, more people from the state would gain employment
and reduce capital flight from the country.
The ISIPA boss commended them for seeing Imo as a good place for an
important investment and assured them of the state government’s
support.
Earlier, the Malaysians representing a security firm, KCS Megatech
International, Mr. Sam Ngik, Kennedy Amadi and Chris Onyemachi
appealed to the Imo State government to give it an opportunity to
invest in the
security sector of the state.
According to Ngik, KCS Megatech is involved in the production and
installation of security gadgets such as close circuit television on
the streets, banks, hotels and the outskirts of the city.
He said the CCTV monitors and detects crimes scenes in any part of the
city for easy apprehension of the culprits, maintaining that if given
the opportunity to invest in the state, crimes such as open day bank
robbery, kidnapping, car snatching, armed robbery, etc in the city
would be a thing of the past.
Ngik stated that the firm could not establish in the state without the
support of the state government, saying that such a support would help
reduce the cost of establishing and procuring and servicing them.
Also speaking, another director of the company, Mr. Kennedy Amadi
frowned at a situation where people are assassinated in hotels without
anyone being able to detect their killers, disclosing that the
company’s gadgets would be able to detect such crimes if installed.
He maintained that if the government could give them support,
insecurity situation would drastically reduce in the state.
Amadi added that part of their packages would be to engage people from
the state as their staff, hoping however that the staff they would
recruit would not sabotage their effort.
