Ochendo Abia (CON), an honour well deserved By Uche Aguoru An award is a form of honor, a kind of recognition aimed to felicitate one’s excellent contribution in a chosen field. An award is not only a great prestige or a mark of excellence, but is also a tremendous boost for someone to strive and excel higher and aim for even bigger accomplishments in life. It is the ultimate token of recognition of purest of talents and highest of achievements. In the words of Adams Sandler who won an Oscar, once said and I quote I dont think about that. I wasnt a kid growing up saying one day Ill get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasnt on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do. Adam Sandler in line with this sayings the conferment of the award of the commander of the order of the Niger (CON) is a well deserved one for Governor T.A.Orji and the entire people of Abia state. It is not out of place that the federal executive council out of the 36 state governors in Nigeria, singled out governor T.A.Orji for such a prestigious award, what is more interesting is the background with which governor Orji and indeed the good people of Abia state was selected in the midst of others for such a prestigious recognition. Security of lives and property of a people is the first and most important contract which the people must enter into with their leaders before even going to the polls to elect them, every politician seeking the peoples vote must first of all promise them of the security of their lives and property before any other thing as it is only a man who is alive that can live to enjoy other infrastructures that the government can provide. the background upon which the state is coming from before the coming of governor T.A.Orji Ochendo global is one that any rational mind will have to appreciate the efforts and hard work of governor Orji at ensuring the security of Abians, if the truth must be told there was a time when those who criticize the government of chief T.A. Orji today, cannot even come back to the state for fear of being kidnapped, robbed or even killed. there was a time in this state when people go to bed as early as 6pm for fear of being killed or kidnapped, when people abandoned their flashy cars for keke and buses so as not to be recognised as being rich, when people leave their comfortable well air conditioned homes to go and sleep in church premises and other places not befitting enough to be called a home. there was a time when people had to go the extent of hiring their own personal security before visiting their villages many people went as far as relocating their businesses and families from Abia to other States of the federation it was so bad that I know of a family whose aged parents were kidnapped in three different occasions for a ransome before they decided to relocate them abroad, children and women were not spared of this chilly horror it is still fresh in our minds the hijack of a school bus that was conveying school children to school with all occupants on it including children and their teachers, that attracted the attention of the united nations, the kidnap of three journalist who were coming back from a conference in umuahia is still fresh in our memories, there was a time when expatriates and construction workers had to abandon their bits and ran for their dear lives, a time when robbers will write to banks that they are coming to rob and will also have the effrontery to keep to the appointment and afterwards go home unchallenged a time when all the news that emanates from Abia is either that of kidnap or killings it was so bad that even the security agents were afraid of the hoodlums because the criminals were better equipped than the security agents. a time when Abia was in record as the most insecure state in Nigeria. but today the story is different, Abia as of today is adjudged one of the most secured states in the federation courtesy of the hard work and ingenuity of Ochendo global a peace loving man, a man who would rather lose his own life and secure that of all Abians. a man who has invested so much into the security of lives and property of Abians that was why I tagged this award of the commander of the order of the Niger (CON) being bestowed on Governor T.A.Orji by the federal government in recognition of his role in securing the state and its citizens on this day the 29th of September 2014 as an honour well deserved. Aguoru writes from Umuahia
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:50:23 +0000
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