IT'S MY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

It is exactly one year today since I was sworn in as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on April 27, 2021.

We give God glory for sparing our lives and making it possible for us to witness this day. For this, we are indeed grateful.

We also appreciate all those that made our journey thus far a success, especially our governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, and Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, HCN, and a host of other party leaders and stakeholders.

Many thanks too to the good people of Okigwe Zone (Imo North) for believing in us and entrusting their mandate to our care.

We are delighted that within this short period, we have been able to justify their trust in us and brought home a lot of democracy dividends.

Within our one year in the Senate, we have sponsored bills and moved motions; secured several major Federal Government interventions, such as the N30, 000 Survival Funds from the Bank of Industry from which not less than 400 persons of Imo North benefitted; N60,000 Special Public Works Programme, with not less than 300 beneficiaries; N500,000 Covid-19 Relief Loan, with over 200 beneficiaries; N60,000 Job Security Stipends and N100,000 National Directorate of Employment Loan, targeting not less than 600 persons. In all, several Imo North constituents have benefitted from these intervention programmes, which have alleviated the pains and boosted the economy of many households, families and communities in the zone.

We have also promoted the Classroom Libraries Project in primary schools in the country, using at least 18 primary schools in Imo North as pilots. The idea is to revive the reading culture in our children. We have also motivated teachers through cash awards to elicit their commitment and passion for this project.

We have shown our love for sports by promoting sports through a football academy and also supported Okigwe youths and their football team to participate in a competition in Enugu.

We have also selected five youths from each local government, a total of 30 beneficiaries, as participants in our cinematography academy programme. The aim is to train the lucky individuals to become experts in videography, documentary photography, video and picture editing. Ultimately a total of 300 youths from the zone (50 from each LGA) shall be empowered at the end of the exercise.

Also, we were not found wanting during the flooding disaster in some parts of Imo North, especially Amauzari in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area. Apart from visiting and giving personal donations to victims, we also mobilised the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to address the plight of the people. We are grateful that NEMA mobilised immediate assessment of the damages for remedial action and extended relief to the victims while promising to find a permanent measure to forestall future flooding.

Similarly, the yearly flooding challenge around Isinweke-Lowa, Ihitte Uboma LGA is currently being tackled permanently.

Only last month, we organised a six-day medical outreach across the entire zone.

Perhaps, our greatest achievement is in the power sector because of our belief that power is at the root of the failure or success of any business. So, we moved a motion on the urgent need to construct the Power Transmission Substation in Okigwe LGA for rapid industrial growth and drew the attention of the senate to the anomalous situation in Okigwe, headquarters of Imo North Senatorial District. This substation had been approved and abandoned since 2003 but we took it up from where the late Senator Ben Uwajumogu left off and urged the Federal Ministry of Power to urgently construct the already approved but abandoned Okigwe 132/33KVA transmission substation as well as to upgrade the Okigwe power facility to a district station. This request was granted and, consequently, three projects were approved for the area and are at an advanced stage of construction.

Additionally, we have installed solar panels in some parts of the constituency and donated transformers to others in order to improve the power supply in those areas as well as drilled boreholes and constructed roads for some communities.

We have no doubt that these projects, some of which had been completed or at an advanced stage of completion, have revived the economic and social life of the people and shall contribute to stemming criminal activities, unemployment and youth restiveness in the zone.

We are still work in progress, and as we move into the second year of our representation, we are certain that a lot more shall be done for our people. For us, the call to serve is not negotiable, and serve we must.

Thanks and God bless you

Sen. Frank Ibezim KSC
Senator, representing Imo North

One Year Anniversary?

And this phrase is coming from a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?

Yet these people claim most educated in Nigeria.

Let Abokki make a single mistake in a paragraph and see these people rent the air with vulgar languages, yet they can't string few words to make a single phrase without murdering English language.

Smh.

LeoDeKing:


Smh.

... like Agama lizard, your problem.

Ibezim go and work and leave propaganda alone. It is too early for that.