Anambra approves $150m export facility for Achebe’s hometown

​Anambra State Government has approved a proposal for the construction of export processing facility estimated to cost about $150million in Ogidi, the hometown of Late Chinua Achebe, a celebrated author.


When completed, the “Ndi Anambra Export Facility Project” will become first Global Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) certified conditioning and food processing centre in Nigeria.

Global GAP is the global organization that assures standard agricultural practice- safe, sustainable agriculture worldwide, of which abx world is the only member from Nigeria.

The facility expected to be built and completed in Anambra State within the next 12 months, will further complement abx world’s plans with the provision for Boeing 777 cargo plane for weekly agro-produce exports to the European markets.

Speaking on the project, John Okakpu, Managing Director and CEO of Abx World Nigeria Limited, described the partnership as “serious agreement that will positively improve the state’s internally generated revenue, generate employment and means to alleviate poverty”.

Okakpu said, “This facility will provide employment for 1200 in the state and Nigeria in general and have the capacity to produce over 150 tonnes of products daily”.

He added that the conditioning and food processing centre will have two units parallel to each other according to Global GAP standard. It will also have a standard NAFDAC/Global GAP chemical, residue, nutritional testing laboratories as well.

“This Centre will bring the world much closer to Nigeria in this digital age. It will be built with state of the art cutting modern technology. At full operation, it would have cost about US$150m to build.

“The center will be certified by GlobalGAP on completion as it will be built under their supervision. The first Nigeria. We have them in Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Egypt, Ivory Coast and few other African countries. This facility will be 100% fully Nigeria owned.


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