By Agbo
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Arguably, Prof. Paul Sunday Nnamchi is the best national assembly member to emerge from Enugu State in the past 20 years. Rising from the field of academics, the member representing the people of Enugu East and Isi Uzo Federal Constituency hit the ground running despite initial distraction from the opposition in the courts after the 2023 election in which he was overwhelmingly voted by the masses.
No sooner than he took the oat of office than he began to speak for the people who were hitherto unheard so eloquently to the admiration of the entire country. If the government had heeded his motion on a Matter of Urgent National Importance regarding the now perennial herders killing of the people of Eha Amufu in December 2023, the issue of insecurity in the troubled area would have been a thing of the past by now. Nnamchi had, on 19th December 2023, drawn the attention of the federal house of Representatives to the constant annihilation by the Fulani herdmen of the innocent farmers in Eha Amufu whose only offense is plying their trade in their fathers’ land. The timely alarm led to the decision to site a military barrack in the community. But more than two years after, nothing has been done by the federal and state governments to see that worthy gesture materialize.
Prof. Nnamchi had turned in bills upon bills on the floor of the house, all to the benefit of his constituents. Several of such, including those meant for the establishment of federal universities, colleges of nursing science, colleges of health sciences and Technology, gifted and talented schools, etc, have all been rolled out from the stable of this erudite scholar, and most have been concluded up to public hearing stages. If the federal government decides to give assent to these bills, it then means that places such as Ako Nike, Trans Ekulu, Mbu, Ikem Nkwo, Eha Amufu, etc, will be elevated to the bubbling status of towns with Federal presence.
In the Education sector, Prof. Nnamchi has consistently paid the school fees of not less than 500 university students from the constituency who have since been captured under his scholarship program.
Ever since we elected him to serve us at the National Assembly, Nnamchi has remained present and available to the members of his constituency. He has been attending so many events, be it weddings, burials, Chieftaincy taking ceremonies, and every other event that our people organized from time to time. This is significant because the initial occupants of that position behaved as if they were barred from associating with the people they represented throughout their tenure.
Even in road construction, I have it on good record that it was Prof. Nnamchi who facilitated the federal government construction of the road that leads from Ako Nike junction into the main town after the money for the initial contract had been cornered for possible embezzlement.
There is virtually no aspect of our sociopolitical and economic life that has not been touched by this quintessential leader. And one is too sure that all these will count in his favor as the journey to the next round of election in 2027 gradually begins. Why not, since the zone has never had it this good in terms of visibility at the national level and other aspects already enumerated