By Victor Nwegede, Abakaliki.
A member representing Ikwo/Ezza South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Comrade Chinedu Ogah has distributed over 20,000 bags of fertiliser to the farmers from the constituency.
He also shared over 100 million Naira with his constituents as he marked his 47th birthday anniversary, and inaugurated his legacy projects with an empowerment programme on Sunday at his Item Amegu residence in the Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
The money according to Ogah was used to empower the youths, women and underprivileged persons as well as petty traders as a cash start-up for their businesses, but he distributed the fertiliser to his constituents as part of his contributions towards implementing efforts of President Bola Tinubu and Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State in ensuring food sufficiency and economic growth in the country through effective legislation and other programmes aimed at addressing their needs.
In his address, the two-term Green Chambers lawmaker noted that he had sponsored many bills, motions and petitions geared toward alleviating the plight of his people between 2019 and 2021.
He also disclosed the monumental achievements, he attracted to his constituents between 2019 and 2022, which included the installation of thirty transformers and over seven hundred solar street lights across the constituency.
Others were rural electrification projects, a 100KVA solar grid power plant, the drilling of forty hand pumps and nine motorized boreholes, the construction of over seventy bridges and culverts, two civic centres at Ikwo and Ezza South LGAs, four classroom blocks at Ndiegu Echera Central School, construction and renovation of five hospitals, two bungalows for a widow at Amaezekwe in Ezza South LGA and an elder at Ekpelu in Ikwo LGA, thirty kilometres of Roads attracted though some are still ongoing, payment of WAEC fees for over three thousand candidates, payment of hospital bills for indigent patients and payment of school fees for students in Nigeria Law School.
Ogah had equally secured employment opportunities for about eight hundred graduates into Federal Civil Service, empowered youth and women with cash to start-up businesses; distributed over thirty thousand bags of fertiliser, and provided drugs to health facilities in Ikwo and Ezza South Council Areas.
The lawmaker had distributed fifteen vehicles, forty-five tricycles; four hundred and fifty motorcycles, fifty sewing machines and fifteen cassava grinding machines to his constituents.
As usual and as part of activities lined up for the year 2023 programme Ogah had in the last three days visited Abakaliki and Afikpo Correctional Centres, motherless babies homes, destitute homes, artisan centres, and other places to show love to the downtrodden and other less privileged in the society, where he distributed relief materials worth over 150 million naira to them.
The Federal Lawmaker also used the period to inaugurate some of his projects, which he executed in the constituency between 2022 and 2023. The projects included 3 classroom blocks at Igweledeoha Amagu, a motorized borehole at Eke Echera, solar power street light in Orinte, and other projects in Ezza South LGA.
Also, inaugurated were the Okpotegu bridge at Echera Ikwo, Enyigbuchiri Alike Akwakwa bridge, hand pump borehole at Echi Alike, four classroom blocks at Ndiegu Echera Central School, Abakaliki-Noyo-Ndiegu Echera-Obubara Road, Item Amagu-Enyigbuchiri concrete pavement road, Amainyama-Okpuitumo transformer, Enyigbuchiri-Amagu transformer, Noyo-Alike repaired borehole, Akuakuna transformer, motorized borehole at Nsuba Okpuitumo, the solar power plant at Azuofia Item Amagu and three classroom block at Edukwu Edo Primary School.
In the course of the inauguration of the above-mentioned projects, Ogah with his team, inspected many of his ongoing projects which include Azuokpuru road at Ohatekwe Amagu, Ndiegu Amagu Ward II water reservoir/reticulation project, renovation of the examination hall at Ikwo High School, Agubia, renovation of Agubia High Court, Ndiechi Echera Road and Ikwo Civic Centre, and some transformers, according to the lawmaker, were donated to Ezzama and Ameka wards in Ezza South LGA, Ndufu Igbudu, Ameka and Oferekpe in Ikwo LGA, Umunaga in Ohaozara LGA and one in Izzi LGA of Ebonyi State.
He announceed some roads in his constituency have been awarded for construction. According to him, the roads include Ohatekwe-Eguekpa-Orona-Amagu road, Onuzo-Mbele junction -Amagu Nsokkara-Amudo road in Ezza South, Onwe Ogah-Igbudu-Inyimagu-Eke-Amagu Enyigbuchiri road, Onuigboji-Nwanchor Oginyi-Amuda Igbudu market square road and Obegu Nduofia - Assumption road, among others.
Ogah recalled that he has extended the execution of his legacy projects to some parts of the State, citing the rural electrification at Uburu, the home town of the immediate past governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, rehabilitation of Enugu-Abakaliki Express Way, rehabilitation of Abakaliki-Afikpo road, installation of solar Street light in all the federal institutions across the state, and attracted two hundred million naira to Abakaliki Military Hospital.
Recall that the event attracted the presence of the wife of Ebonyi State governor, Chief Mrs Mary-Maudline Uzoamaka Nwifuru, Speaker, Federal House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abass represented by Ugonna Ozirigbo of Isu Njeaba/Nkwere and Nwangele Federal Constituency, with his team and Speaker, Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Moses Odunwa; among other guests and well-wishers cutting across academic, business, media, political and religious classes.
