Soludo’s Value Reformation Agenda:From Manual To Movement
By Rose Oranye
The Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Value Reformation, Dr. Law Mefor, on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, formally opened a three-room Value Reformation Project Office at the ministry in Awka.
Addressing stakeholders at the event, Mefor said the office was a demonstration of good faith and commitment to the value reformation mandate given to the ministry by Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo.
He recalled that a few weeks ago, stakeholders gathered to tease out ways of activating the dual mandate, adding that since then, the team had worked online leveraging digital technology to produce a working manual that is now before the Governor and the Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC) for inputs.
The opening of the three-room Value Reformation Project Office at the Ministry of Information is small in size but large in symbolism. It signals that Anambra’s value reformation agenda has moved from talk to work.
For decades, Ndi Anambra watched values erode. Hard work gave way to quick wealth, enterprise to deception. The ethos of Onye Anambra — wisdom, hardwork, fear of God and the age-long proverb, “aka aja aja na-ebute ọnụ mmanụ mmanụ” (No wealth without work) was assaulted by a satanic creed of wealth without work. Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo was right to deliberately re-designate the Ministry of Information to Ministry of Information and Value Reformation. The dual mandate is a diagnosis: we cannot communicate progress without first reclaiming values.
Commissioner Law Mefor and his coalition of the willing deserve commendation. In weeks, leveraging digital technology, they teased out a comprehensive working manual now before ANSEC. But more importantly, they refused to wait. As Mefor rightly said, “it is better to have an imperfect document than none at all.” Time and tide wait for no man.
The unveiling of the project office matters for three reasons. First, it creates a common home for all partners. It is not a monopoly for any group, but a hub for volunteers who genuinely want to help. Second, it demonstrates good faith to the Governor and ANSEC that the team is thinking and doing. Third, and most critical, it anchors the next phase: moral persuasion.
Every right thinking person will agree with the Commissioner’s tripartite approach — legislation, moral suasion and enforcement. While the Attorney-General fine-tunes the law, persuasion must start now. You cannot lay ambush with a law against your own people. People must first know, understand and own the values before they are held accountable.
This is why the plan to expand “Malụmebe” a radio programme on Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) to five-station syndicated programme is strategic. To win Anambra in three to six months, there is need to dominate the airwaves. ABS alone cannot do it. The message must meet Ndi Anambra where they are — in their preferred stations, in their languages, in their homes.
The architecture as explained by Dr Mefor is also sound: state, local government, ward, community, and institutional layers, beginning from primary schools. This is important because if we catch them young, they will police their parents and we will have laid a foundation no future government can easily destroy.
But government cannot do it alone. The Ministry has done its part and passed the ball to stakeholders. Sponsoring a week, a month or a quarter of airtime, adopting a school, or a community, is not charity. It is investment in the Anambra we claim to want.
As Mahatma Gandhi said, be the change you want to see. Let us be that change. This is not child’s play. It is about taking our state back.
Rose Oranye is of the Ministry of Information and Value Reformation, Anambra State.