Taking The Path Of Least Resistance ➖ Hon Bede Eke, The Albatross Of Our Constituency

MAZI EJIMOFOR OPARA

There is a point in stating that what is worth doing, is worth doing well irrespective of how little the beginning seems. The growing trend of celebrating a person who minors in his majors and majors in the minors of his selfish ego blotting activities, has become the new definition of Hon Bede and his band of neurotic supporters. I do not intend to speak about his current usurpation of projects with the attendant jostle to place his name on the project board. This is seen on the ongoing road construction by FERMA along Umuaga Nguru-Umukabi road (See pics 1, notice that Bede and his boys used a black masking tape to superimpose his name on the board twice) at the behest of Hon Jerry Alagboso (Asiwaju), the Chairman, House Committee on Works.

Let’s assume, the road was even attracted by Hon Bede and for once question the pertinence of that road amongst all others at different levels of severity in the constituency. For me, and other patriotic indigenes of our LGA, the Umuaga-Umukabia road topped the list of priority roads on Hon Bede’s list not because it is a major road or in a deplorable state. But, for the selfish fact that the said road is in his village and leads directly to his country home. That said, Hon Bede has become so lethargic that he has shown little grasp of the fundamental infrastructural needs of his immediate constituency. The unequipped school building at Nnorie, the decrepit market stalls and the road to his country home are projects one can simply qualify as “taking the path of least resistance”.

For the school, the same persons who applaud the school building are the ones posting pictures of dilapidated school buildings dotting the landscape of our LGA. The same persons praising the market stalls, are the ones complaining about the inaccessible N50, 000 loan promised to over 1,000 constituents by Oga Bede. The same persons hailing the grading and asphalting of Umuaga-Umukabi road, are the same people threatened by erosion at Ihitte-Afor Umuohiagu road, on one hand, and the Orie Umuneke-Obike-Orisheze-Etche road, on the other.

I was at home over the weekend and decided to visit the popular Ogochia river behind the Orie Umuneke market. Upon arrival, i had to park my car distances away due to the eroded condition of the road. Yet, Hon Bede Eke is the Vice Chairman, House Committee on Environment and a member of the House Committee on Constituency outreach. If the erosion threatened sites in Oga Bede’s immediate constituency mean nothing to him, especially now that the menace has assumed life threatening dimensions (See attached video), then I wouldn’t mince words to say that Bede is more of an albatross than an asset at the Federal House of Representatives. He is a weakling who takes the path of least resistance in anticipation of massive praise.

Lastly on this, while the House Vice Chairman on Environment is going about dangling fleeces of minor projects on a faces, his colleague from Anambra, Hon Chris Azugbogu, who is just the Vice Chairman, House Committee on appropriation is tackling the environmental menace called erosion head-on in his constituency (See pics 2). If you are from Umuneke, Obike, Orisheze down to the border town of Etche, yet you come here to tell us about “Consolidation” for a Bede Eke, my brother, my Sister it is simply unfortunate.

*#NgorOkpalaDeservesBetter.*