RAYMOND OZOJI reports
Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for next year's House of Representatives election (NDC) Hon. Chibuzor Udekigbo has decried the level of infrastructural decay and developmental backwardness in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state.
Udekigbo who is seeking to represent Ihiala federal constituency bemoaned the fact that in spite of being one of the oldest local government areas in the country, Ihiala is abrasively poorly developed coupled with being ravaged by insecurity with little or no government interventions.
The NDC House of Representatives candidate observed that Ihiala is bereft of social amenities like roads, hospitals and schools for children to attend, emphasizing that the worst of it all, is electricity.
Udekigbo said Ihiala Local Government which doubles as Ihiala federal constituency has not experienced electricity for the past eight years and according to him, nobody is making any move to remedy the situation.
According to him, communities have tried to salvage their conditions through self-help electrification projects but he opined that those were not enough as he believes that there are things that are legislative affairs which are supposed to be fought for at the table of government, so that government will know that the communities lack the amenities and provide it for them.
Udekigbo maintained that it is as a result of the foregoing that he availed himself to the people of Ihiala so that together they will salvage the pitiable condition of the constituency. He said that everybody in Ihiala Local Government Area knows that he doesn't condone suppression or oppression. That it is either Ihiala federal constituency is given its allocations and what belongs to them or nothing else.
The NDC House of Representatives candidate said he was not going to the Green Chambers to have sweet talks with the national assembly hierarchy but he is going there to continue to press and demand for what rightfully belongs to Ihiala federal constituency.
Udekigbo said he would be going to the national assembly with pictures of dilapidated roads and decades of structures ravaged by insecurity; human beings that needed to be rehabilitated, rebuilt and reorientated.
He said people whose houses were burnt and their areas ravaged by insecurity needed to be attended to by government which he said quality representation can facilitate. Udekigbo stressed that the acute hunger and fear that have subjected Ihiala people to abject poverty for the past eight years of insecurity in Anambra State and especially in Ihiala Local Government Area, his country home.
Udekigbo said, " I am going to speak for my people and tell the international community to remove our name from the catchment of danger zone that they have mapped Ihiala so that investors can come into Ihiala and invest in our place because as long as we are having the flash of that danger zone, no international or multinational investor can come into Ihiala because it has been described as a no go area. "
He said somebody has to speak vehemently and tell the federal government that Ihiala has been saved. The astute politician noted that as at today, if one visits any security office and they showcase their watchlist, Ihiala would be blinking with red.
Udekigbo emphasized that until Ihiala is no longer seen or perceived as a danger zone, foreign and local investors will begin to site their businesses in Ihiala and the people would be gainfully employed, adding that his mission to the national assembly is to birth a new Ihiala where security, rule of law and egalitarianism reign supreme.
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