Igbo-Etiti Youths Commend Nwodo, Pledge Support and Demand for Closer Ties with His Administration

Members of the Igbo-Etiti Youths Council recently visited the Chairman of Igbo-Etiti local government, Hon. Ikenna Nwodo.

During the visit at the council headquarters Ogbede, the organization under the leadership of their President, Nicholas Udeozor and other members of the executive commended the mayor for the good work his administration was doing for the people of Igbo-Etiti.

According to him and others who spoke, they were motivated to come and identify with the chairman after seeing how he had been sustainably steering the ship of government to the broader interest of the people of the local government.

They said they had reports from many of their members with regards to the life enhancing projects the government had located at their different localities of which they felt the chairman and his team needed genuine commendation for, hence their visit.

They also said they were so taken by what the government was doing in the local government that the youths felt it was time they came closer in real partnership with it as real stakeholders.

They Mayor while responding, warmly welcomed them, noting he was indeed excited to see them as he not only knew most of them personally but had also had constant interface with them at various levels since coming into office.

Hon. Nwodo observed Igbo-Etiti indeed had a bright future in the youths who were smart and reputed to be well comported in all they did. He thanked them for making out time to observe the projects of his government, adding these were indeed done with effectiveness and sustainability in mind.

Continuing, he said “our government is on record to have undertaken one of the most extensive, all inclusive and diversified alleviation measures in the history of the local government. This we achieved by involving over a thousand citizens through multi strata, engagement, in addition to the direct and collateral impacts of the many projects we have executed so far.”

According to Hon. Nwodo, any government that didn’t take the welfare of the people strongly was not worth the support of the people, adding that for his administration, the people were his priority.

Thus, according to him, “one of our core deliverables is water, which we often rightly say, is life. As such we are in active collaboration with high level partners like Wateraid and UNICEF for a total realization of these vital objectives and policies on water, sanitation and health.

The chairman told the youths the government upon assumption noticed that over ninety five percent of the water infrastructures in the local government was in total disrepair. He said many overhead storage tanks were rusty and leaking, the reticulation systems broken, boreholes and pumps collapsed, among others. The government knew just then it had a huge task at hand. And ever since, they had been on their toes on them.

He once again thanked the youths for their love and support, inviting them to be part of an oncoming initiative of his administration he called Igbo-Etiti PET. According to him, this stands for Igbo-Etiti Projects Evaluation Tours, where the ordinary people, the real owners of government, would be on hand on continuous basis to see what his government has done, is doing and planning to do, for their assessment and critical inputs.

In addition to the president others who spoke during the session were Queendaline Agbo Kosisoschukwu, the organization’s vice president and Ujunwa Agadaife, member.