Deputy Speaker Kalu Flags Off Renewed Hope Light Up Project, Distributes Solar Lights to 42,000 Households, 26 Transformers in Bende.
Benjamin Okezie Kalu, on Monday, flagged off the Renewed Hope Light Up Project in Bende Federal Constituency of Abia State, targeting Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt.
He also distributed 26 power transformers to the Wards to connect communities to the national grid of electricity.
Commissioning the solar lights, which marked the second phase of the project, the Deputy Speaker who represents the constituency at the National Assembly described access to power as the pressing need of the people uncovered during a constituency-wide needs assessment.
He said: “In representation, one of the key expectations of the office of a representative is to do needs analysis, and in the course of doing needs analysis, we discovered that one of our greatest problems in this federal constituency is darkness, lack of access to power and that has affected our economic life, the security life of the community, the human capacity development and job creation, all of which fall under the proposition of the Renewed Hope Agenda, the eight agenda of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who from the start intended to improve the economic life of our nation, starting from the communities; create more jobs; improve the security of our communities, human capacity development, agriculture and food security and the list goes on” The Deputy Speaker said the project has two components, connecting communities to the national grid through the transformer distribution and providing alternative energy through solar for all homes in the constituency. He said the intervention aligns with the eight-point Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which seeks to improve the economic life of Nigerians starting from the communities. “What we are doing today has a multiple effect, a ripple effect that trickles down to different aspects of this Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr. Today, we stand as the partners of the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr.
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