Buhari South East Youth Movement (BUSEYM), has warned Abia State Government, federal and state lawmakers to desist from claiming ownership of Federal Government projects in the state and their constituencies or face legal action.
The group claimed the state government and legislators were doing so to win the people’s support and probably, win the upcoming general election.
The movement wondered why the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members, who daily feed the populace with false and negative news about the President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government will now turn around to lay claims to projects done by the federal government and its agencies, such as the school feeding programme, which has increased the enrolment of pupils and students in the state education sector.
The group stated that this same ugly act played out just recently during the rehabilitation of the dilapidated Umuahia-Ikotekpene Road, which has become a deathtrap due to the long neglect, until the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing undertook its repairs.
The youth group spoke during a project tour of interventionist projects embarked upon by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), to alleviate the suffering of the people in the state, such as internal roads network of the World Bank Housing Estate in Umuahia metropolis, erosion control at Isieke Umuahia, which, if not for NDDC’s intervention would have cut off parts of the Abia north senatorial zone from the state capital and the agrarian Uzuakoli-Ozuitem road last done in the early year 2000 which has now led to effective evacuation of food stuffs from the affected communities leading to availability of food.
Director-general of the group, Nwabueze Onwuneme and members of the group commended the quality and expertise of the contractors of the projects and thanked the NDDC management for people oriented projects and called on the contractors on all federal government and NDDC sites to duly erect their contract information boards stating the client for the jobs for the public and host communities to be adequately informed.
The group called on its members in the host communities and also members of the APC to always see it as a point of duty to enlighten members of their communities on projects done by the APC led federal government and its agencies.
Onwuneme used the occasion to appeal to the NDDC to open up rural roads in the highly agrarian clan of Ohuhu in Umuahia north local government area of the state which coincidentally houses the Ulonna north and south farm settlemens establisehed by the late Premier of eastern region Rt. Hon Michael Okpara in order to boost the evacuation of farm products.
