By Davis Uka
The Chairman of Ivo local government area, Ebonyi State, Chief Emmanuel Ajah has said that normalcy has returned to Ivo LGA as farmers and others are going about their normal businesses after series of insecurity that threatened the local government.
Aja who disclosed this while addressing members of correspondents' chapel of NUJ who paid him a courtesy visit in his ALGON office in Abakaliki, the state capital, said that the relative peace and security currently enjoined by the people of the area were the resultant effects of different measures put together by his administration
The council boss who affirmed that the security has improved in the area unlike what it used to be, said the activities of kidnappers who has been terrorizing the local government, has been tamed to the bearest minimum.
Recall that the area has in recent times engulfed with a lot of security challenges as many people were killed by criminal gangs carrying out robberies and kidnappings in the area
He said the various interventions put in place are achieving results to curtail the activities of the criminal gang.
He noted that he has made difference as Chairman of Ivo local government which he said was verifiable.
“I have made difference in Ivo local government. In terms of security, I have made difference and I have returned normalcy, in terms of infrastructure I have also made difference.
“I asked my predecessors why they didn’t bring soldiers to the local government to help tackle security challenges and they said it was difficult to do so. But I have brought soldiers in three checkpoints in the local government.
“The three checkpoints are; Alkaeze, Mile 2 and Ojukwu Bus Stop. I also have 25 Mobile Policemen at the place where an INEC officer was killed. I take adequate care of them to ensure good security, I spend a lot on security.
“I have built a very fine Magistrate Court in the local government. We had no Magistrate Court before, our people were used to go to Ohaozara before for cases relating to Magistrate Court but I have built a befitting Magistrate Court to save them from the stress they pass through in going to Magistrate Court. This brand new Magistrate Court I built will be commissioned this month.
“In human empowerment, I have about 50 SAs and I have about 25 youths and women that I gave N500,000 to make them self reliant to reduce unemployment. I have 100 widows that I pay monthly.
“I am the only local government Chairman in this local government that has paid bursary twice this year within my one year in office as the Chairman and it has never been like this before.
“I have also given all the ward councillors in the local government culverts to build and no council Chairman in the state has done this”, Ajah stated. ENDS
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