By Cajetan Mmuta, Awka
Dubai-based business mogul, Ambassador Godson Onyeka Obieze has expressed commitment to his firm to partner with the Anambra state government towards the provision of essential healthcare needs of people of the state.
He said with “the vast global outreach and experience in the potency and essential health needs of natural roots, seeds, and nuts”, his company, Royal Throne Integrated Services Limited, can improve the healthy living standard of the people and residents “through the expansion of the nutritious products to the local populace and beyond the frontiers of the country.”
Speaking with newsmen in Awka, he said natural products such as Ginseng roots, nuts, and black seeds help to boost the human immune system; cleanse and improve the blood and vital tissues of the body as well as enhance growth and healthy living.
According to him, the products, especially, the ginseng has the potential of singling out a lot of things that ordinarily should be flushed out of the human body systems while the almond and cashew nuts have been of immense help to manage the blood sugar in humans body and also boost the vitality of the body system.
“I ventured into these nutritional health products because of their health benefits and besides these are things we are known for in our family in the management of people’s health even from days of forefathers and any time I see anything that will help the health of the people, I give needed attention to it,” he said.
Obieze who has also tremendous marks in shipping, real estate, and tourism enterprises said there was an urgent need for governments at all levels to rise to the occasion of providing adequate and essential healthcare needs of the people in addition to the responsibility of protection of lives and property.
“If the state government is ready to partner with us, we are willing to go the extra miles towards making sure the products go round all the nooks and crannies of the state and beyond,” adding that funding has been the major challenge in the company’s efforts to meet the huge demands by people.
“We can massively produce and supply what will go round to the people with the support of government. No individual can do such massive supplies without the support of the government.”
On the real estate development, Obieze tasked the state government to invest more in the provision of affordable low cost housing estates to slow cost the effect of shortfall in urban accommodation challenges considering the capital-intensive nature of the sector.
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“Real estate is capital intensive; in this part of the world, people think it’s not about buying and selling land, no. It is something you have to provide land for the people, and build cities, and in doing that you need to have financial balance or partners abroad who work with you. If the government is ready I can invite those experts and developers to come in and negotiate with them; you give them land and they may come with funds and the state government will also pay counterpart funds and the business will be done.”
He explained that come to the full realization through his experience about the housing deficit in the state that every city needs the private and public sectors to help, pointing out that the housing system is in contrast as people usually step in to build whatever they like than what obtains in developed countries.
“There is the need for the government to profile the landscape for a city and tell the people that this is what they want or you come up with a prototype of what you want to develop for approval and that will be supervised by the government. If the government is involved in business, it will be able to manage what is being done.
