The Chairman of Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Cornell Onwubuya, has emerged as the best performing council chairman in the South East geopolitical zone and in Enugu State. Onwubuya also bagged the award of excellence as the third overall best performing local government chairman in the country after direct field assessment of physical projects and non-physical programmes undertaken at the third-tier level of government by the House of Representatives through its committee on State and Local Government Affairs. The performance awards were conferred at the Nigerian Local Government Development Award dinner held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja where the House report on the performance of the 774 Local Government Areas in the country in year 2012 was released. Speaking on the occasion, Chairman of the House Committee on States and Local Government Affairs, Mr. Rasak Adewusi, observed that the 2012 Nigerian Local Government development award was a viable means of encouraging excellence, performance and efficiency at the grassroots. Managing Director of Messrs SEGNIP Promotion, Engr. Kayode Adegboyega, a firm that carried out the field assessment of projects executed by Local Government Council Chairmen across the Federation, said that the awardees were carefully selected after painstaking and thorough analysis of projects and non-physical programmes with a view to determining their impact and sustainability based on available resources and needs. The Uzo-Uwani council chairman was selected based on projects executed in line with the needs of the people with available resources and their impact on the council. The projects include 4.5 kilometers asphalted Akiyi-Ogbosu-Eziora road in Umulokpa, the construction of the Chairman’s residential quarter and a Council hall. The award recipient, Mr. Cornell Onwubuya stated that despite the paucity of funds and peculiar challenges in the collection of internally generated revenue, “my passion for improved living condition of the people whose mandate I hold in trust, has continued to drive my efforts towards total transformation of the area as evident in projects executed across the 16 electoral wards in the council.” He expressed gratitude to the stakeholders, staff of the council and the Enugu state government for making the local government system function without interference.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:44:37 +0000
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