by By Elijah Ugani
Sen Sandy Onor, the Governorship candidate of the PDP, has promised to resetle the Ebijakara community in Abi Local that was wiped from her settlement during a communal clash if elected governor.
Sen Onor made the promise while responding to the call from the elders to resetle the Ebijakara community, and assured him that peace have returned.
Responding, Sen Onor assures that ” We shall resettle the Ebijakara people. But we must love ourselves; give us peace and tranquillity we need to run the government.
“We will continue with the reconciliatory moves. We would reconstruct the Bahumono ring road based on the peace that would be flourishing in Bahumono community. We must desist form war confrontations.
“Communal clashes should be banished. I am happy that peace is beginning to return to Bahumono”.
Responding to the call to address the plight of retirees, Onor noted that “We will give our best to retirees. People give the best to their state and you abandon them without paying them. It is criminal not to pay retirees their entitlements after many years. We shall pay attention to that”.
Earlier, stakeholders took turns to address Sen Onor as they make their demands;
Freedom Ejom- Bahumono Clan noted that “We need the rural road from Ebijakara-Ebom-igonigoni, to the tourism at Ebom Lake.
“We want the people of Ebijakara to come home because we have made peace. We need skill acquisition centres.
“Bahumono is PDP and locusts have taken over our land so if you assure us of this, we would vote for you”.
Engr Eleng Richard from Imabana stated that “Looking at this team, I saw a tram that value this state in the past. With this team there is hope for Abi and the state.
“We need water. We are suffering because our streams are dried up. No hospital in Imabana. We don’t have any reasonable appointment, when you win remember us”.
Elder Emmanuel Ibanga from Agbo community, held that “We need access road from Ekureku to Annon. We need water to curb outbreak of cholera.
“We request the completion of the hostel at the Itigidi College of Nursing. We need the rehabilitation of the Songhai farms to boost agricultural productivity.
“We need a standard police station because of the communal clashes between Adadama and Ebonyi state.
“We need a boundary demarcation at Adadama to curb this communal clahes between them and Ikwo in Ebonyi state.
Abi is behind you and would vote massively for Sandy Onor”.
On her part, Pastor Mrs Eno Oqua, who spoke on behalf of the women and the Elders, posited that “Please empower the women so that they can do farming all year round.
“The elders are easily forgotten after election. So remember them once you are elected, by giving them little stipends and honorarium. The present government see elders as useless and have no economic value. Please don’t abandone us like Ayade did. Please look into pension and gratuities for senior citizens.
Speaking on behalf of the youths, Esame Elemi maintained that the youths are very skillful, but that Gov Ayade gave appointments to unskillful people, “We are skilful. Ayade gave appointments to unskillful people. Our lifting will come from you. Remember to give us opportunites if elected”.
