BY LUCKY OYIBO
The function of the legislature in any clime is to make laws for peace, welfare and good governance of a state or country. This inalienable right or function of the legislature has remain the prime responsibility of the Minority Leader and the member representing Isoko Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Leonard Okuweh Leo Ogor, when he sought the mandate of his constituents 13 years ago to represent them in the Green Chamber of the National Assembly.
His entry into the House of Representatives in 2003 to represent Isoko Federal Constituency has remained a source of blessings not only to the ethnic nationality he represents but the entire state and country where his core values of legislative duty are entrenched. In 2007, 2011 and 2015, the lawmaker as he is known ‘Leo Ogor’ was reelected to the Green Chamber. Having cut his political teeth in the house, Hon Ogor sought the mandate of his colleagues to become the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives in the 7th Assembly.
Today, Hon Ogor, sitting as a vocal minority party legislator in the National Assembly, did not let his opposition status or nomenclature weigh him down in the House. He believes that belonging to a vocal minority party in the National Assembly (NASS) is strength to position the party in its rightful place in the House and whose instrument he effectively used to become the Minority Leader of the 8th Assembly of House of Representatives.
As a distinguished legislator for four consecutive times and serving member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Ogor has been able to put smile on the faces of his constituents that voted him and gave him the sole mandate to represent them for the past 13 years. Flowing from the above, Ogor must be a political leader that listens to the voice of his people and indeed stakeholders from his ethnic nationality, following the confidence entrusted on him over the 13 years of his effective and purposeful representation to the people. As a result, Isoko people believe that Ogor is a God- sent son to deliver the dividends of democracy to them.
Apart from his core value of political participation in Delta State, Hon Ogor remains a political leader in the Green Chamber. His core values of legislation, representation and oversight were reflections of numerous projects he attracted to his Isoko ethnic nationality he is representing, among whom have been completed, ongoing and new ones initiated for the socio-economic development of the ethnic nationality.
Ogor, an extra-ordinary legislator and voice of Isoko nation at the national level has never let his people down with the allocated constituency funds at his disposal. As a distinguished lawmaker and vocal legislator so abreast with the workings of the constitution and the House, he ensures he articulates his points on the floor of the Assembly to drive his points to the admiration of his people and Nigerians as a whole.
The people of Isoko nation are proud of Hon Ogor’s effective and purposeful representation as he has used his position in the House of Representatives to influence visible, people-oriented and enduring projects to his constituency. These people-oriented projects include Uzere-Aviara road approved by the Federal Executive Council and the construction of Ozoro and Oyede township roads.
Others include Enwhe Bridge (completed), building of 18-classroom-blocks including a Science laboratory at Alaka Secondary School, Ozoro; The Eru Primary School Igbide; the provision of Health Centres across Isoko Federal Constituency; the building of classroom block at Umeh Secondary School as well as in Emede, Aviara, Irri and Okpe-Isoko are inclusive of Ogor’s projects he attracted to the Isoko Federal constituency.
The list also includes provision of street lights across Isoko Federal constituency, building of ICT centre at the Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro among other numerous projects he has attracted to the Isoko nation. Ogor, who is regarded as a core developer of the Isoko nation, believes that education is one of the legacies that a parent must give to his/her children.
In addition to the numerous projects attracted to the ethnic nationality, Hon Ogor, has in the wake of the Easter celebration complemented the “meaningful peace-building platform aimed at political and social stability” of the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s SMART mantra by presenting 12 Toyota Hilux vehicles to vigilante groups in Isoko communities to combat the rising crime wave in the area. This was seen by his constituents as a good gesture in the right direction to arrest the level of crimes waves in the ethnic nationality. Hon Ogor’s gesture followed security threats in his constituency which had reached a worrisome level recently.
He said while handing over the vehicles: “There is something I saw which pricked my mind in Isoko . When development and expansion are going on in the communities, there seems to be security challenges, therefore the need to set up vigilante.
“The vigilante took responsibility of protecting lives and property, while others are sleeping. I decided to support the group with vehicles to support and enhance their operation”.
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