The Isi-Uzo Legislative Council has passed a vote of confidence in the council chairman, Hon. Obiora Obeagu.
The council predicated their resolution on his strides in human empowerment, infrastructural development, prompt payment of salaries and allowances, and “critical interventions in the multifaceted security challenges in Isi-Uzo LGA.
The Legislative Council also congratulated him on his nomination and eventual emergence as one of the final winners of the Nigerian Local Government Chairmen Merit Award, LOGMA.
The resolution was consequent upon a motion sponsored by the Majority Leader of the Council, Hon Ugwu Nnabuike, who is also the councillor representing Neke Ward II.
The Legislative Council equally resolved to commend Hon. Obeagu for the Ward Community Development Committees (CDC), which he established to enhance grassroots development in Isi-Uzo as well as setting-up the Isi-Uzo Emergency Management Committee (ISEMAC) and provision of palliatives to over 5,000 households, displaced farmers and widows in partnership with Peter Mbah Foundation; charity outreach and donation of items and funds worth millions of naira to Internally displaced persons in Umualor, Ikem, Isu and other parts of Isi-Uzo.
Moving the motion, the Majority Leader noted Obeagu’s “dogged and determined efforts in confronting the series of crisis that erupted in Eha-Amufu last year, and his efforts, working in partnership with the state government, to effectively handle the crisis in the war-torn Eha-Amufu and create an atmosphere of peace for socio-economic and political activities, among others”.
“There is also the visionary and historic construction of an Ultra-Modern new secretariat complex, named; Hon. Augustine Nnamani Building, comprising four event halls, about 25 Offices, ICT Centre and modern library to aid effective administration of Isi-Uzo and earn revenue for the council. The new secretariat will replace the old one constructed about 47 years ago following the creation of the Council”.
“The Obeagu administration renovated and furnished the vandalised Legislative Council Building, and also the Executive Chairman’s Office, carried out and completed Asphalt intervention on the dilapidated Ugwogo-Nike/Neke-Ikem road.