29/01/2026
BRING YOUR INVESTMENTS HOME, GOV. OTTI URGES ABIANS, CHALLENGES ABIRIBA PEOPLE TO INVEST IN STAR PARPER MILL RECENTLY RE-ACQUIRED BY THE STATE.
Abia State Governor, His Excellency, Dr Alex Chioma Otti, OFR, has urged Abians at home and in diaspora to bring their investments home to develop the State.
Governor Otti was speaking on Wednesday, January 28, in his office while receiving in audience a delegation of the Abiriba Communal Improvement Union (ACIU) World Wide, led by the General President, Chief Yuccee Ottah Uwah.
Gov. Otti said that he has recovered Aba and created the enabling environment for businesses to thrive, adding that, attraction of investment into Abia is very critical.
“For us as a government, some of the things we do are a way of laying the foundation and creating the enabling environment for investment to flow in.
“So, we wanted to recover Aba first, which we have done now, and other parts of the State. And having done that, we have armed our people to get their investments back.
“It is good to talk about foreign investment, but you will be amazed at how much local investment that has gone out there. A lot of your people have manufacturing outposts in China, Turkey, and the rest of them.
“So, home is still home, we want to start by getting them to come back. And a lot of them are coming back,” Gov. Otti stated.
Governor Otti challenged Abiriba people to invest in Star Paper Mill previously owned by their son, Chief Nnanna Kalu of blessed memory and recently acquired by the Abia State Government, from AMCON after several years that it went moribund.
The State Chief Executive said that he is open for negotiation with private individuals who would be ready to put it to good use and provide jobs for close to 2,000 people as the company used to have.
“I’m happy you also spoke about Star Paper Mill. We have taken it over completely. We have paid AMCON. It now belongs to Abia State Government.
“We are open. As a government, we don’t intend to run it. That’s not our job. Our job is to encourage the private sector, because it’s the job of the private sector to run business.
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