Countdown To Obiano’s 7th Anniversary

Day 1:

Security:

Seventeen days to the 7th Anniversary of Governor Willie Obiano, we begin a countdown to the D-Day with a serialization of his achievements. 

Considering that Security is at the HEART of Governor Obiano’s Economic Blueprint, we begin this series with a look at what he has achieved in securing lives and properties in Anambra State in the past seven years.

It is not an exaggeration to say that no governor in Nigerian history has given as much priority to security as Governor Willie Obiano. 

He made history when barely three weeks into his first term in office, he became the first governor to organize an international conference on security; flying in a top Israeli security expert, Moshe Kainen, to headline it. He followed it up with a regional security conference that featured all the five states of the South East including Delta State.

He launched Operation Kpochapu 1 to cleanse the state and wash off all vestiges of crime. With Operation Kpochapu 2, he introduced regular aerial surveillance with helicopters and with hi-tech equipment that has a capacity to generate and process photo and video of a crime scene from a long distance and conduct data analytics from different locations onto a common control-room. Operation Kpochapu 2 marked the smooth migration of Anambra’s famous Security Architecture from the usual brick and mortar backbone to a much more sophisticated and digital security super-structure that runs on the latest information and communication technology. 

As a result of all these, Anambra under Obiano is widely adjudged Nigeria’s safest state. As a result of his security exploits too, the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics reported that for the first time in history, Anambra State attracted $10.2 million in foreign investments in 2020; a year knocked out flat by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Encomiums have trailed Obiano’s dramatic re-engineering of the social and economic life of Anambra State from a comatose state to a point where foreign investment has started flowing in. 
Following these sterling achievements, the Nigeria Police has honoured Obiano with the award of Nigeria’s Best Governor in Supporting Security Architecture. On the continental level, he was also honoured by Security Watch Africa as the Security Icon in Governance in West and Central Africa. 
This is a story worth celebrating!