Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has laid the foundation for the construction of what is expected to be the biggest drug market in West Africa – the Oba International Drug Market in Idemili South local government area of the state.
The market which will operate a Coordinated Wholesale Centre (CWC) is aimed at removing fake and sub-standard products from the system, thus setting the Anambra State health sector and Nigeria as a whole on the right course. It is sited on a 50-hectare land which is about 492,385,900 square meters.
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The drug market to be delivered within 24 months will have traders at the current Ogbo-Ogwu Bridgehead Onitsha relocated to Oba.
The project is a public-private partnership supervised by the state ministry of health, to be fully funded by Sterling Bank. The building project will be undertaken by Ferrovial Designs and Construction Company, a local developer in the real estate sub-sector.
