Soludo: A Promise Made, A Promise Fulfilled
In the lead-up of the Anambra Governorship election last year, the women of Ebenebe turned attention to their community and broke the culture of vote buying in Nigeria’s electoral process.
The women of this Agrarian community openly rejected election inducement from political parties and swore that they will only vote for a leader who will bring governance to their community.
During the election, political party agents offered the community a five-thousand-naira bribe to vote for their candidate but the women of the community rejected the offer. The women decried the poor condition of their community road, market, health centre, and public schools, adding that successive governments had abandoned the community.
CorruptionTori, a pidgin English Anti-Corruption Programme produced by SignatureTV and supported by MacArthur Foundation visited the community to see how bad the community was.
CorruptionTori reporter said that the condition of the road was bad and it has prevented economic activities within the community as the indigenes who are mostly farmers could not go out of the only road leading from there to Awka to sell their farm produce and people cannot come into the community to buy.
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When Governor Charles Soludo visited the Ebenebe Community in the course of his election campaign last year and saw the condition of the community, he promised the people of Ebenebe that if they vote for him and he wins, he will fix the road for them.
On Saturday, September 17th, Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Soludo will be flagging off over sixty-three kilometres of roads across the state to mark six months in office
One of the roads that will be flagged off is the Awka-Ebenebe road, a testament of a promise made, and a promise fulfilled to Ebenebe people.
Governor Soludo made the announcement at the commissioning ceremony of a 1.7-kilometre road, built by Chief Val Onwumelu in Umuoji, Idemili North Local Government Area of the State.
The governor also said that the best way to develop the state is through Public Community Private Partnership, (PCPP), not through government funding alone and that his administration will deliver governance to the people of Anambra state.
