Onitsha Inland Port To Rake in N6.9billion Daily

The Senator representing Anambra North senatorial district in the National Assembly, Stella Oduah has called on the Federal Government to create an inland container port in Onitsha, Anambra State.

According to her, the port is capable of turning in a daily turnover of over N6.9 billion.

The lawmaker in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Monday, May 23 said that the establishment of the port was very necessary especially as Nigeria was focusing to alternative revenue generation and economic diversification.

Oduah who is Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs noted that with the establishment of the port, commerce in Onitsha and the entire South East region would grow at tremendous levels.

“Onitsha is nucleus to the economic growth of South East: potentially, Onitsha market has a daily turnover of N6.9 billion, there is no market in the sub-Saharan region that has this amount of turnover,” she said.

With the crowd and the resource that goes into it, if we do not create that venue where they can have direct global access then we are not helping the growth of that economy.

For them to have easy access to international market they must have an outlet, to have an outlet they must have a route: the inland container port would address that.