IGBO EZE NORTH LGA SOON TO HAVE ANOTHER RURAL ROAD REHABILITATED: All thanks to Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi

It was a rare and memorable session on Monday the 29th of August 2022, as his Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the Executive Governor of Enugu State, received in audience at Government House Enugu, a high powered delegation of Okpo Youths Association (OYA) who were on a working and sensitization visit to intimate him with our request to collaborate with his government to reconstruct the Mkpamute — Okpo — Amaja — Ikpamodo major road.

It can be recalled that the famous Concerned Igbo Eze North Youths(CINY) was formed in 2019 as a community response to the woeful plight of users of this road. After seeing what our parents and school children pass through day and night trying to access that road, I convoked an assembly of greater Igbo Eze North and begged them to chart an enduring advocacy for this road. We begged Government to declare state of emergency on all roads in Igbo Eze North. We protested, appealed and countenanced our political stakeholders for this sake.

Two years later, seeing the adamant situation of things, I appealed to all villages in Igbo Eze North to form a parallel youth pressure groups and continue the struggle. I led by example and OYA was formed five months after. And as it pleased our amiable members to trust me with the mandate of President General, I swung into action to reward their confidence.

And after a one-in-town capacity building symposium on educating our people on the danger of social vices and capital crimes held on 27th August, 2022 at Okpo Umuoma Primary school, I and my workaholic executive officers placed priority on getting the attention of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to this all-important road in Igbo Eze North. As usual, considering his tight schedules, it was not easy to secure his audience. Our thanks and endless appreciation goes to the Executive Chairman of Igbo Eze North LGA, Engr. Ejike Itodo for making the impossible possible in this regard. A local idiom in Nsukka said that: “Oke eshu luburu n’ udo oke umadu nye ye oso” (Desperate situations demands expertise of desperate men). Hon. Itodo along with Hon. Mike Onyeze made this august visit possible.

His Excellency gave us a fatherly welcome and broke the news we had craved for all these while. We presented him with our plan to flag off a segment of the manifestly dilapidated road network. He was happy with our submission. In his own words: “the state government will gladly partner with your efforts in getting that road done.”

It was the bold statement we spent three years expecting. And here we had it from the white lion himself. On our own side we promised Ugwuanyi of our unalloyed support to his lofty landmark government agenda. We as a people will key into his visionary leadership in the state. Okpo political patronage bloc goes to Ugwuanyi’s generous political plans. Lives in our community has been esoterically unresolving. But Ugwuanyi’s magic hand is extended and our people are hissing a sigh of relief.
Socio-physical upliftment stares our communities in the faces, and we are grateful to Gov. Ugwuanyi’s kindness.

As we look forward to the Government shifting the machinery down for the project, we urge our peiple to provide the genial atmosphere and cordial environment for smooth execution.

Indeed, Enugu is in the hand of God!

– Maazi Chukwudi Onuh
President General, OYA.
05/09/2022

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