RAYMOND OZOJI reports
Enugwu-Agidi community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State was agog on Sunday 6th July as hundreds of indigenes and residents trooped our en masse to the Chinua Achebe Airport Umueri to welcome President-General of the community Hon. Ebuka David Onuorah (Ijele Umunri) back home after a brief sojourn abroad.
It was indeed a rousing welcome and show of solidarity to Hon. Ebuka David Onuorah whom they all affirmed as the best President-General Enugwu-Agidi community ever had. They therefore described the PG as Mr. Project because all the projects he has executed so far have really addressed pressing developmental needs in the community.
At Enugwu-Agidi Civic Centre where a brief reception ceremony was held in honour of the PG, youths, women, Nze na Ozo including the Speaker of the Njikoka Legislature, all listened to the PG as he reeled out more projects that would be executed in the villages to engender sustainable rural development.
The Public Relations Officer of Enugwu-Agidi Brotherly Union (EBU) Ozo Engr. Chiedozie Igweonghu, who acted in the interim as the PG EBU while the substantive PG was out of the country, stated in very clear-cut terms that no PG from Enugwu-Agidi has ever done what Ebuka Onuorah has done for the community, describing him as someone who can be trusted with public funds.
The EBU public relations officer said Ebuka Onuorah constructed Enugwu-Agidi road, built a magnificent secretariat complex, built a bridge connecting Enugwu-Agidi to other communities, adding that the PG is building both human and concrete infrastructure.
Meanwhile the Speaker of Njikoka legislative council Rt. Hon. Obinna Emmanuel Okafor who described Ebuka Onuorah as a capacity PG, said that the PG has impacted positively on the lives of Enugwu-Agidi people because his projects directly addressed their concerns.
Okafor opined that Ebuka Onuorah is the only PG he has seen in the state constructing road and building bridge to alleviate sufferings of the people and also improve on their living conditions with provision of social amenities, adding that the PG equally doles out scholarships and ensure security of lives and property in Enugwu-Agidi community.
Youth leader of Enugwu-Agidi community comrade Ibebuiloh Chukwujekwu Maduabrochukwu, also lent credence to the fact that the PG is trustworthy and doesn't promise and fail instead he does whatever he says to make sure that the people are happy with smiles on their faces. He added that the PG has the support of the youths and they are solidly behind him any day any time.
On his part, Comrade Ebuka David Onuorah the President-General of Enugwu-Agidi Brotherly Union (EBU) who returned from China, told his people while addressing them at the civic centre that they should expect more projects because he is changing the gear.
Onuorah said his government has giving a befitting status to EBU secretariat complex, constructed a road as well as building a connecting bridge currently to ease free flow of movement in the area.
He said he would dole out improved seedlings of maize, cassava stems and other crops together with farm implements like fertilizers to the people to enable them to cultivate very well in this year's planting season.
He also disclosed that Ifite, Achalla and other villages in Enugwu-Agidi will get projects in tandem with their felt needs, stressing that they are ready to work for Enugwu-Agidi to foster sustainable progressive grassroots development in the community.
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