By Tony Adibe
The Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) has lauded Senators Tony Nwoye, and Victor Umeh as well as House of Representatives, Hon. Afam Ogene for providing palliatives and relief items for their constituents and people living in Anambra recently.
The Chairman of CLO in Anambra, Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme, told newsmen in Enugu on Monday that it was gratifying that Nwoye representing Anambra North Senatorial Zone presented humongous palliatives to his constituents few days ago. Ezekwueme said that the humongous palliatives ranged from generators, grinding machines, sewing machines, and bags of rice etc as well as cash ranging between N10,000 and N50,000 to more than 1,400 persons.
According to him, “we were overwhelmed and humbled when the distinguished Senator, Dr Tony Nwoye, stated that he personally provided them and not from the Federal Government.” He added: “We commend him and still expect him to also access Federal Government palliatives to enable more citizens to benefit.
“We similarly thank distinguished Senator, Dr Victor Umeh, for his judicious and transparent disbursement of Federal Government palliatives for his Anambra Central Senatorial Zone. We also expect distribution of Solar Energy, which is also part of Federal Government palliatives to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal and hyper inflation in the country.
“We appeal to other members of the National Assembly to emulate them and commence disbursement of personal and Federal Government palliatives and relief items to ameliorate excruciating sufferings of the citizenry.”
The CLO boss equally thanked Rep. Afam Ogene, representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency for payment of NECO fees of 18 indigent students of Ogbaru High School, Ogbakuba. In another development, the CLO also called on enforcement agents of the Anambra Government on illegal structures and decongestion of roads to apply kindness, wisdom, human face and empathy in discharging their duties.
Ezekwueme said: “Destruction of goods of petty traders in the name of decongesting the road at the present economic hardship is inhumane, anti-people, barbaric, wicked, most despicable, and detestable.
“It is unbelievable that petty traders in Federal Housing, 3-3 and some other parts of Onitsha wake up crying and lamenting that they came and saw that their wares and properties were destroyed by the agents of the government.
“Government should relocate them by providing alternative conducive places of doing business as most of them are bread winners of their respective families and law-abiding citizens.” He noted that “we cannot solve a problem by creating worse problems”.
The CLO boss appealed to the government to commence training and retraining of its personnel responsible for road decongestion and other task forces to instil discipline, selflessness, patriotism, decorum, and civility in them.
