In view of the general believe that the first Anambra Cargo Airport is wrongly located in a distant remote area that is infested with access security issues, the State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has concluded feasibility studies for another airport, now very close to the state capital, Awka.
Coming on the imports of an Aerotropolis city scheme, the project is part of Solution 2.0, designed to achieve Anambra’s VISION 2070.
The government said the Aerotropolis city, being an aviation-driven industrial hub, requires a second airport, but was silent on the current uselessness of its first airport which many say is obscurely located by the former governor, Chief Willie Obiano.
A government official said in an interview that “There would be a second Airport in Anambra, we are working on it already and in the next 1-2 years, flights will be received at the new Airport and Aviation activities will commence”.
Whereas the State Commissioner for Information claimed that “this project is aimed at making Anambra State the African Dubai-Taiwan,” he failed to explain what he intends to mean by Dubai-Taiwan which is a twin-city scheme while Anambra Airport is about only one city scheme.
However, checks by Business Hilights.ng South East Bureau Chief showed that the Anambra Aerotropolis is located in Ndikelionwu, within the Orumba North Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, again, a far distant location from Onitsha, the most commercial city in the entire South East.
Key Location Highlights
Primary Hub: Sited alongside the massive Anambra Mixed-Use Industrial City (AMIC) development in Ndikelionwu.
Regional Growth Corridor: Positions itself centrally within the Southeast geopolitical zone, strategically bordering or offering easy corridor access to neighboring Enugu, Abia, and Imo states.
Proximity to Awka: The expansion corridor is closely tied to the Awka 2.0 master plan, connecting the state capital region to this new economic zone. The project is designed by the state government as an aviation-driven, smart mega-city hub that integrates a planned second state airport with heavy commercial, residential, and logistics infrastructure
Proximity to Onitsha: In all, several Ndi Anambra are of the view that any airport that is far away from Onitsha commercial city will remain a wasted effort as Asaba Airport will continue to soak away air traffic in the state, thus making the new airport another useless project like the first one which currently is seldomly used by many air travellers in Anambra and South east in general.
