•Elect credible leaders to champion your cause, Senator Uzodimma urges communities as Awommamma Development Forum pays him courtesy visit
The Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Chief Hope Uzodinma, has called on communities to always present their best and brightest for town leaderships as records have shown that development efforts hardly reach the grassroots if town associations are manned by leaders who are more concerned with how to line up their pockets than with how to develop their communities.
Uzodimma who made this remark when newly elected executive officers of Awomamma Development Forum (ADF), led by its President General, Chief Tony Akuneme, paid him a courtesy call in Abuja noted that development efforts fail to reach the targeted rural dwellers where the so-called town leaders are hungrier themselves and cared more about to pay their house rents and children’s school fees than how to lend a helping hand in meeting community needs. He charged the visiting representatives to ensure that they always carry other local community leaders along in articulating programmes that can help in meeting felt needs of each community.
While praising the new leadership of the town which he described as one of the most populated and educated communities in Imo state (being made up of five autonomous communities) and as such could not be ignored by any serious political leadership and government, reiterated his commitment to building an ultra-modern event and recreation centre for the community.
While thanking Uzodimma for granting them audience, Chief Akuneme, an Assistant Controller of Immigration, earlier in his address said that he and other elected officials were in his office to inform him of the emergence of the new leadership for the socio-cultural group and to solicit for his support. He added that they were out to evolve leadership intent on engaging all the elected representatives of the people with a view to promoting healthy relationships, good communication and adequate delivery of their election dividends.
Akuneme used the occasion to deliver the survey plan of fifteen plots of land donated by the people of Ubogwu village on behalf of Awommamma community for the proposed Hope Uzodimma Event Centre and Library. He equally conveyed the appreciation of his kinsmen for the various development strides being attracted to the community through the intervention of the senator. He specifically mentioned the two major roads being built through the help of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) at present.
Other members of the executives who accompanied Akuneme on the courtesy visit include Dr. Mrs. Chinwe Njoku-Nwosu, a bank manager, Prosper Aku Obi, a communication expert and Dr Chieme Chukwudoruo of Abia State University (ABSU).