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Why I choose to Attract A Federal Secretariat into Abia State; Hon. Onuigbo Explains

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The honourable member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency, Honorable Sam Onuigbo (Odozi Obodo) in an exclusive chat with AF NEWS has explained the reason why he is working hard to attract a Federal Secretariat into Abia State.

Honorable Onuigbo said as a former commissioner for lands in Abia and as a person who takes special interest in one’s effort to contribute towards the improvement of were you have found yourself as a legislator, he was aware that Abia does not have a Federal Secretariat, despite having come of age. The state will be 30 years this year he said,yet it does not have a Federal Secretariat, even states created after it has new Secretariats built for her by the federal government.

Odozi Obodo revealed that this preoccupied his mind during a committee meeting where the Honourable Minister for Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN came for budget defence.

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“After listening to the presentation of the minister and having looked through states that has Federal Secretariat,i discovered that most states especially those that were created in 1996 have new and well furnished Secretariat built for them by the federal government”.

“This made me to ask the Honourable minister the reason why Abia does not have a federal Secretariat despite been the first state in the country in alphabetical order”.

 

“In responding to this questions, the minister requested me to get a land for the project from the state governor for him,and once this is done,his ministry will commence work on the project”, he responded.

 

Based on the response, Hon Onuigbo stated that he immediately requested his team to do a letter to that effect to the governor.

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Two days later when the governor arrived Abuja, he took the letter personal to the governor, who read through it and did not only signed ,but also called the honourable minister personally. Hon Onuigbo commended Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for his timely responds to the request.

The honourable member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency said he personally took the letter and delivered it at the office of the honourable minister of works and housing, after which he did a fellow up two weeks letter been 6th November, 2019.

The Honourable member said at the meeting with the honourable minister,he was told that they received a letter from the governor expressing intent to provide land for the project, but what he wants is a land not an expression of intent.

 

On hearing this,the honourable member immediately got across to the governor, who directed the commissioner for land to provide a land for the project,this he said culminated in the allocation of 7 hectares of land at Ekoba low cost housing estate for the Secretariat project.

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On the current situation of the project, the honourable member said information at his disposal after speaking with the minister for works and housing indicates that the Abia State government is yet to release title documents to the federal ministry of works and housing to enable it start preliminary work on the projects in order to ascertain the cost of the projects which will be inserted in next year’s budget .As soon as this hurdle is cleared before the issuance of budget circular for 2022 ,the project will be captured,he said.

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