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The member representing Obingwa West constituency in Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Erondu Uchenna Erondu has donated a total of 1,200 bags of fertilizer for farmers in the constituency.
This was contained in a statement signed by his spokesperson, George Egejuru which was obtained by The Eastern Updates on Tuesday.
“The gesture is part of continued efforts by the House Committee chairman on Public Service to assist farmers in the constituency with inputs,” the statement read in part.
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“Conscious of the challenges farmers go through to assess fertiliser, the legislator has decided to come to their aid by providing them with fertiliser to boost their production.”
“With the gesture, he has contributed, as he has been doing in other sectors of the economy of the constituency, to ensure food security in the constituency and the state at large”
The statement urged the farmers to visit their community headquarters from Tuesday to Wednesday between 8am and 2pm for collections of the fertiliser.
It further directed the community leaders to ensure that only genuine and identified farmers are supplied with the fertiliser to avoid it being diverted into wrong hands.
In another report, a middle-aged man who’s name has been given as Kenneth Nwangu has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court sitting in the High Court, Awka, Anambra State, for defiling his nine-year-old daughter and only child.
The judgment was delivered in a three-count brought against the defendant by the state government following compelling evidence proving him guilty as charged.
Consequently, he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on count one – having sexual intercourse with a nine-year-old, an offence punishable under Section 34 of the Child Rights Law of Anambra State of Nigeria, 2004.
