Orji Assures Constituents on Projects, Allays Discrimination
Immediate past governor of Abia State and Senator representing Abia Central senatorial district, Senator Theodore Orji, has assured his constituents of his commitment to ensuring the presence of federal projects in all the communities within his constituency.
He also enjoined them to assist him in the area of identifying deficits for proper communication to the federal government in order to remedy them with all possible and timely expedition.
Orji who spoke through his Media Adviser, Don Norman Obinna during media chat with newsmen in Umuahia, said though projects would be shared evenly within the six local government areas that make up Abia Central, noting that preference would be given to communities facing menacing ecological problems like erosion gullies, landslide and road.
This he said explained why Emede community in Umuhaia North Local Government Area got the largest share of the 10 constituency projects recently kicked off.
“As you must have noticed there is erosion control in Umueze Road and also another erosion control in Umuakanu Road. We still have another ongoing erosion control in Umuagu Road with bridge as well as rehabilitation/reconstruction of Umuire-Udide-Umuodudu-Agbor Road all in Emede Ibeku community,” he said.
Orji added that erosion and road issues should be taken seriously as “affected communities are capable of being obliterated from the map of the country if urgent actions were not taken.”
He also assured communities yet to experience the ongoing development revolution in Abia Central to be patient adding that the projects being executed at the moment were the ones captured in the 2016 budget.
“There are other projects captured in 2017 budget, if accent is given, some of those communities are likely to be the beneficiaries,” Orji said.
Furthermore, the Senator asked those with complaints to feel free to bring such forward to him through his constituency offices adding that he believes strongly in Right Base Approach to development as that is the only way to meet the exact needs of the people.
On the allusion in some quarters that he has not properly put to adequate use the constituency project funds made available to him, Orji said such statement is not only unfounded but laughable and only exposed the ignorance of the purveyors.
“As a legislator, my responsibility is to identify deficits in my constituency and present them at the floor of the National Assembly.
“If assent is given, these deficits are domiciled in the relevant ministries and agencies for action. My duty is just to supervise the work, I neither nominate contractors nor partake in the execution of the project,” he said.