Hon Emmanuel Orie: Building Roads, Touching Lives




So far, the record has been impressive. Give or take a few shortcomings, the successes have far outweighed the omissions. Emmanuel Chigozirim Orie, honourable member representing Ohaji/Egbema at the Imo State House of Assembly, has pushed through a popular raft of reforms in double-quick time. He has masterminded a sweeping positive change in the infrastructural, socio-political, and economic life of the Ohaji-Egbema polity. And he has done all this while looking cool and stylish.

He began his new career on a difficult terrain, with his party losing both at the state and federal levels. His party’s internal democracy too was in turmoil. To crown it all, Emma’s hard-earned victory at the polls was vigorously challenged in court. But in the face of all these, he providentially made it home and dry. Today he appears to be operating a poll-tested and crowd-pleasing agenda. New roads, Women and Youth empowerment, sports development, scholarships, community health care, and other laudable constituency projects. At the party level, the orchestra is now playing a new tune with the party cock-a-hoop to retake the centre.  

The tarring, total rehabilitation, and delivery of the Umuokanne-Ohoba road earlier this year appears to be Emma’s most outstanding achievement so far as the formerly 5 km earth road linking the two densely populated and economically important communities now wears a new look with bitumen surface, drainages, and other furnishings. 

The Emma Agaala-agaa Leadership and Empowerment (EAGLE) Foundation is the outfit through which the young Legislator is reaching out to his constituency with stomach infrastructure, free medical care and youth empowerment programmes. For the month of August alone, free medical services were administered to men, women, and children in Mmahu, Umuokanne and Umuapu. 

The EAGLE Foundation in partnership with SEED Foundation has since 2016 embarked on an empowerment programme that is projected to empower 100 constituent members before 2019. Eagle Foudation in partnership with MSME Business School and SEED Foundation had in December 2016 rolled out the first set of graduates from the Ohaji/Egbema State Constituency Skill Acquisition Programme. The youth programme is first of its kind in the Local Government Area and is still on-going. 

 The Eagle Foudation Free Medical Outreach banner

 Hon Orie handing certificates to graduates of the skill acquisition programme. December 2016

 Handing Cash Donation to Winners of the Umuokanne Inter-Village Football Tournament

 The Christiana Hospital Road, Abacheke, Egbema

 Inspecting the Umuokanne Ohoba road project

 Hon Orie with primary School pupils in his constituency

 Award and prize-giving at Central School Umuokanne

It is on record that since 2016, Hon Orie has been assisting students from Ohaji/Egbema to gain admissions into Imo State University Owerri, Federal University of Technology Owerri, Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Alvan Ikoku College of Education Owerri, and Imo State Polytechnic Umuagwo. This is in line with the vibrant University of Abuja-trained Political Scientist’s vision for mass literacy. 

Recently, Hon Orie completed and delivered a Staff Lounge and ICT Centre to the staff of Ohaji Egbema Local Government Area Council headquarters. The construction phase of the project was completed last year while the supply of ICT equipment was done within the first quarter of 2017.

Hon Orie’s numerous contributions to the development and transformation of Ohaji/Egbema has not gone unnoticed. Last November, the young Minority Chief Whip and Chairman House Committee on Imo State Oil Mineral Producing Area Development Commission (ISOPADEC) and Niger Delta Development Commision (NDDC) bagged the prestigious Legislator of the Year Award. An award of excellence presented to him by the organisers of the 5th edition of Miss ISOPADEC Beauty Pageant in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of Imo House of Assembly and Oil Producing Areas.

Aside from his constituency projects, Hon Orie has attracted federal projects too to Ohaji/Egbema. Some of these are Christiana Hospital road in Abacheke, Egbema by NDDC and the rehabilitation of Umuapu-Umuokanne-Obinze road by Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA).

In the field of sports, Ohaji/Egbema is not left out as Hon Orie inches toward becoming the pillar of sports in the LGA by his philanthropy. Last December, he organized a peaceful intervillage football competition in Umuokanne, his home town. Winners of the tournament went home with a trophy and cash donation.

Now Hon Orie will have to deal with much thornier issues, such as security and stronger political structure: issues that require tough choices rather than generous gestures. If he succeeds in shopping for the right caliber of supporters, he would end up with some domestic victories that could help forestall and fortify his chances for 2019. One of the clearest messages from the 2015 election was that the voters want a representative who would solve pressing problems rather than engage in partisan point-scoring.

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