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Sunday, 29 May 2016

Things you must know about H E SENATOR T A ORJI


WHAT THE OPPOSITIONS, APOLOGISTS, AND YELLOW JOURNALISM PRACTITIONERS WILL NOT LET YOU KNOW ABOUT SENATOR THEODORE ORJI (OCHENDO) CON.

                                                Part 2

(4). That the Food Security bill when enacted, will ensure a healthy society, and a robust population because it will certainly reduce drastically and/or eliminate completely the menace of nourishment, morbidity, neo-natal mortality, high rate of child and maternal mortality which Nigeria is the second largest contributor with the loss of about 2, 300 under-five-year-olds and 145 women of childbearing age every single day according to the current UNICEF record. In other words, about 8.395 million and 52, 925 annual infants and maternal mortality will be prevented,
(5). It is a fact that while he held sway as the Governor of Abia State between 2007 – 2015, Sen. Orji tackled and reduced the menace of child and maternal mortality which was very high prior to his emergence as Governor with aggressive government policy through the pursuance of the National Programme on Immunization (NPI), Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and the building, renovating and equipping of 712 health centers such as the Abia State Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Center, Umuahia, Dialysis and Ophthalmology Center, Umuahia, Modern Eye Center, Umuahia, Abia State Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Center Annex, Amachara, Abia State Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Center Aba, and Ahiaba Okpuala Health Center, Isiala Ngwa, just to mention but few to complement the Federal Medical Center Umuahia which was the only functional hospital in Abia State before 2007 built in the early 1950s by the joint effort of the Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
(6) . These landmark achievements explain why he was persuaded to contest and was voted for en masse by the people of Abia Central Senatorial District to represent them. Without doubt, the decision has proven to be a smart one because while the entire nation is grappling with the recent economic hardship, the people of Abia Central are jollying. Why? Of course with 600 bags of rice -100 bags each with condiments to the six local gov­ernment areas that make up the constituency – shared to the widows, elderly and less privileged by Sen. Orji, no indigent family in his constituency will go to bed with empty stomach

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