Date Published: 05/29/09
Ogwa clan have been neglected for 10 years - Group
The Greater Ogwa Heritage Movement (GOHM)says it is regrettable that the
people of Ogwa Clan in Mbaitoli local government area of Imo State have
not benefitted from the much talked about democracy dividends, from the
state government since the coming of the third republic.
In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Mr. Anayo Onukwugha,
GOHM said that it was also regrettable that the present administration,
under the leadership of Chief Ikedi Ohakim has spent two solid years in
office and constructed several roads, water and electricity projects in
several parts of the state but none in Ogwa Clan.
“Today, Governor Ohakim has constructed roads, embarked on water
projects in parts of the state, but the people of Ogwa are yet to see any
sign of his achievements in the clan.
“The ordinary Ogwa man hear about the governor’s achievements on radio
because he is yet to see a government bulldozer come into the clan to
begin the reconstruction of the clan’s only access road to other parts
of the state”, the statement said.
The group said the people of Ogwa voted massively for Chief Ohakim during
the 2007 general elections just as the did for the immediate governor,
Chief Achike Udenwa in 1999 and 2003 but were forgotten for the eight
years Udenwa ruled the state.
“The Ogwa people voted massively for Udenwa in 1999 and 2003, but
unfortunately, he forgot them for the eight years he was in power. No
indigene of Ogwa was appointed into any prominent position during
Udenwa’s regime.
The people cried to the state government about the sorry state of the Ogwa
General Hospital, all the three secondary schools in the clan as well as
the Ogwa electricity project and the Iho-Ogwa-Orodo road that was
abandoned during the Evan Enwerem era, yet no favourable response came”,
the statement said.
It called on Governor Ohakim not to toe the line of the past
administration and come to the aid of the people by going on with the
proposed reconstruction of the Ama-Nwaozuzu-Iho-Ogwa-Road.
The group appealed to the governor to consider appointing some prominent
sons of the clan into positions of trust in his administration. |
