Senator Austin Akobundu has shown enormous capacity within the less than two years he has spent in the senate so far. Fact for fact, he is one of the best performing senators East of the Niger.

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  1. Senator Akobundu has attracted ongoing construction of the following roads and other projects:

a. Oloko-Amizi road project
b. Oloko-Ugbuebulle road project
c. Modern skills acquisition centres in Ikwuano and Isiala Ngwa North while those of Umuahia North, Umuahia South, Isiala Ngwa South and Osisioma LGAs will soon commence.

  1. Contract awarded with work commencing soon for the complete rehabilitation of Ariam Usaka Secondary School, Ikwuano
  2. Installation of solar-powered streetlights in select markets across the Senatorial District as follows:

a. Apumiri market, Umuahia South
b. Ahiaukwu market, Umuahia South
c. Obikabia market, Isiala Ngwa North
d. Nkwo Nsulu market, Isiala Ngwa North e. Ahiaeke market, Umuahia North
f. Afor Umuda market, Ofeme, Umuahia North
g. Ekeonyeugba market, Isiala Ngwa South
h. Nkwo Ebe market, Umunkpeyi Nvosi, Isiala Ngwa South
i. Ariam market, Ikwuano
j. Ndoru market, Ikwuano
k. Ekenwobasi market, Osisioma

  1. Skills Acquisition

Senator Akobundu has a target of training and empowering 1000 youths of Abia Central Senatorial District with modern and highly competitive ICT skills in batches. So far, two batches of 180 participants each (360 in total) have already concluded their training. Six candidates were selected per ward from across all the 60 wards that make up Abia Central Senatorial District, for the two batches.

They were trained in UI/UX Design, Web Design, Professional Graphics Design, Cyber Security Systems and Operations, Digital Marketing, Forex Trading, Software Development, and Data Science.

  1. Scholarship to select undergraduates
  2. Sponsorship of 113 constituents to the National Teachers Institute on a full 3-year scholarship
  3. Sponsorship of training of over 400 secondary school students in Embedded Systems Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence
  4. Sponsorship of training of youths in farming and sewing. The beneficiaries were gifted empowerment items like sewing machines and cash for their start-up
  5. Sponsorship of training of youths in paint making and cosmetics production. The beneficiaries were given cash awards as support for their start-up
  6. Capacity building programme on peace and security for traditional rulers, community leaders, and other stakeholders in the traditional institution on conflict prevention, management, and resolution.
  7. BILLS AND MOTIONS

i. A bill for the establishment of an Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Umuahia

ii. A bill for the establishment of a Federal College of Health Technology, Ikwuano

iii. A bill for the establishment of National Sport University, Nsulu

iv. A bill for the establishment of a Federal Institute of Entrepreneurship and Technical Skills Development, Osisioma

v. A motion for the Appropriation of sufficient funds in the 2025 budget for the speedy completion of the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Federal Road rehabilitation project.

Let me emphasise more on this one.

Senator Austin Akobundu raised the issue of the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road through a motion on the floor of the senate on the 11th of December 2024. In that motion, he lamented how work has since stalled on the road and requested the senate to adopt resolutions urging the federal government to expedite work on the road which he described as a very strategic road but had caused untold hardship to the people due to its dilapidated state.

Following his passionate motion, the Senate adopted the following resolutions:

i. Urge the Federal Ministry of Works to immediately release funds for the completion of the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road during the current dry season; and

ii. Mandate the Committee on Works to urgently investigate and unravel the causes of delays, and determine the extent of failure and report back to the Senate within two weeks for further legislative action.

iii. Appropriate funds for the road project in the 2025 Budget

Two months after the resolution, the federal government approved the sum of N14.37bn hike for the road.

Gladly, the Abia State government has taken over and commenced work on the road.

There are ongoing skills acquisition centres to be sited in each of the six LGAs that make up Abia Central Senatorial District as sponsored by Senator Austin Akobundu. Three of them are nearing completion with the three others to follow.

Senator Akobundu’s installation of solar-powered streetlights in select markets across the Senatorial District as follows: a. Apumiri market, Umuahia South
b. Ahiaukwu market, Umuahia South
c. Obikabia market, Isiala Ngwa North
d. Nkwo Nsulu market, Isiala Ngwa North e. Ahiaeke market, Umuahia North
f. Afor Umuda market, Ofeme, Umuahia North
g. Ekeonyeugba market, Isiala Ngwa South
h. Nkwo Ebe market, Umunkpeyi Nvosi, Isiala Ngwa South
i. Ariam market, Ikwuano
j. Ndoru market, Ikwuano
k. Ekenwobasi market, Osisioma

ICT skills acquisition programme in which participants were trained in competitive and high-flying ICT branches such as UI/UX Design, Web Design, Professional Graphics Design, Cyber Security Systems and Operations, Digital Marketing, Forex Trading, Software Development, and Data Science, as sponsored by Senator Austin Akobundu

Senator Austin Akobundu sponsored 113 constituents on a full 3-year scholarship to the National Teachers Institute.

Senator Austin Akobundu sponsored youths to train in farming and sewing after which sewing machines and cash gifts were given to the beneficiaries to aid their start-ups.

Knowing the importance of peace for people to thrive, Senator Austin Akobundu sponsored a two-batch Conflict prevention, management and resolution capacity programme for the traditional institution that included traditional rulers, town union leaders, youths and other stakeholders.

With this rich scorecard in just under two years of being in the senate, Senator Austin Akobundu has indeed proven that people-oriented and community-centred performances as these are not of political pretenders but the hallmarks of true statesmen who always think about the next generation.

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