The Senator representing Enugu West in the National Assembly, Osita Ngwu has promised that his zone would partner with the state government on culture and tourism as well as other developmental projects.
He made the promise during a post inuagural reception organised in his honour at the Base Landmakrs, Enugu on Saturday.
Ngwu noted that water issue as promised by the state governor would not be a challenge.
He thanked the people of Enugu West for voting for him massively and promised that he will not take their support for granted.
“Winning an election is about the people and I am happy that the good people of Enugu West massively voted for me. What it means is that I will not take the support of our people for granted. I will give them genuine quality representation at the Senate.” he stated
“I told you my primary obligation is to legislate for the welfare, security, peace and good governance of Nigeria with particular interest on Enugu West Senatorial Zone.
“I assure you all that I will pursue them with vigour. Our governor said it will be unusual. We will key into it to reposition our state.”
“We are going to have Constituency offices in all the five local governments that make up the Enugu West Senatorial Zone.
“I have a plan. One is that I have three primary roles. One is to make law, second, is that we have to hold the government accountable to make sure whatever the Executive is doing is in line. Thirdly, we have to lobby to make sure projects are coming to my constituency for benefit of the people. On capacity building which is a key area, we have started doing the thing before the election. Just three days ago, I gave 65 persons grants to start-up business.
“I have gone round to ascertain the needs of every community. We have five local government areas and 21 political wards in the zone. What an Inyi person wants is not what an Ndiabor person wants or what an Awgu person wants. We have taken a synopsis of the projects and the ones not completed and we are going to start from there”, he said.
“On women affairs, the Lawmaker said, “I have assigned the job to my wife and I know she does things well, so she will handle it well. I will give her all the supports required of her to make women and the widows happy in Enugu West Senatorial District.
“On Cultures and Tourism, we are going to appoint five SAs, each will be incharge of each local government area of the zone to harness the tourism and cultural potentials in the zone. We will build dams in Achi, Mgbowo, Inyi and Mpu. And we will also have film village in the zone for Nollywood actors and actresses.
“For the youths empowerment, just before the last election, I had 500 persons I bought JAMB forms for. We opened profile for all of them. I want to make sure I follow up the admission processes. Yesterday, we had special parliament where we promised that we are going to have sports festival. There will be annual sports festival involving other areas of sports to be known as Enugu West Sports festival. The days when talented footballers from the zone cried for contact is gone. I am here for you. We will also offer scholarships, provide Information Communication Technology (ICT) facilities to youths, among others,” he stated.
Senator Ngwu expressed gratitude to Governor Mbah, PDP leadership, and the people of Enugu West for their support throughout his electioneering campaign and election.