Senator Austin Akobundu (Abia Central) has said that dividends of democracy are the panacea for insecurity, youth restiveness, criminal tendencies, and ethnic agitations, among other challenges in the country.
“These challenges will minimise the moment those in authority in the country fully place the interest of the people on the front burner,” the Senate Committee chairman on National Planning and Economic Affairs asserted.
Akobundu distributed over 2,000 bags of fertiliser to farmers in the six local governments in the district in his country home in Oloko, Ikwuanno local government.
“I’ll continue to render impactful service and programmes to my people to justify the confidence they reposed in me despite the opinions of those who may in their own right think otherwise.”
Speaking further, the erstwhile minister of state for defence noted that since his inauguration into the Senate last November, he had executed many programmes to touch people’s lives.
The retired colonel explained that the achievements include sponsoring scholarships for 113 National Teachers Institute students and indigent undergraduates of the district in tertiary institutions through his foundation.
Others are information communication technology training for 1,000 youths, training youths on tailoring and agriculture product ventures, and providing sewing machines, including start-up grants.
He used the opportunity to announce that contractors for the various proposed skills acquisition centres he attracted in the local governments have been mobilised and will soon move to the sites.
“Also, I want to place it on record that soon solar-powered street lights will be delivered across the district for our “Abia Central Must Glow initiative,” the one-time Peoples Democratic Party national organising secretary added.
In his remarks at the event, the senior special assistant to the senator on agriculture, Henry Nwoha, lauded him for his quality representation, assuring that the fertiliser would be delivered accordingly.
