The Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Onofiok Luke on Wednesday held a constituency briefing where he thanked the people of Nsit Ubium state constituency for their support through out his eight years in the state house of Assembly.
The briefing which was fourth of its kind had about sixty constituents which included, students, traders, women and the physically challenged empowered.
Addressing the people at the council Secretariat, Luke revealed that plans have been concluded to launch a Special Education Intervention Programme and a Start-up Expansion Grant.
The out-going Speaker explained that in the education programme, ten students would get a total sum of One million Naira at 100,000 Naira each. For the start-up category, 500,000 Naira will be offered to ten widows at 50,000 Naira each, while One Million Naira for 20 enterprising youths at 50,000 Naira each has been set aside.
He further explained that ten women will receive 500,000 Naira at 50,000 Naira each and another 500,000 Naira will be given to 10 physically challenged persons at 50,000 Naira per person.
Luke who is also member-elect for Etinan/Nsit Ubium/Nsit Ibom Federal Constituency in the 9th National Assembly said he would continue to inject funds into the new and flagship empowerment programme in order to continue to accelerate growth in economy and skills among his constituents.
He however thanked his people, stakeholders, PDP, Traditional and religious leaders, friends, family, women for their prayers and contributions and urged them to forward their concerns which he could form into a bill or motion and table before the national assembly for considerations.
He also handed a summary of his legislative report to his constituency which captures all the activities and achievements through out his eight year engagement in the state Assembly particularly in the three cardinal mandate areas of lawmaking, oversight and representation.
“I have decided to document these modest achievements in the report in order to provide you with a pedestal upon which to get a better view and perspective of my legislative efforts, and to make informed assessment therefrom. As you may already be aware, I have sponsored three private member bills since our last meeting of this setting. I have also attempted to open up newer legislative frontiers for you though multiple oversight engagements within and outside the state. All these efforts are captured summarily in the legislative report.
“Even from the National Assembly, I will continue to implement my representative agenda to the extent that my resources and network can fuel. Today, we will be expanding the scope of that representative effort to encompass two new schemes called the Special Education Intervention Programme (SEIP) and the Start-Up Expansion Grant (SEG). Both programmes will complement the ongoing Seed Capital for Business Start-up, the Skill Development Support Programme, Constituency Education Support Scheme Small Scale Business Support, the Agriculture Development Scheme, the Constituency Infrastructure Development Project, and the Constituency Transport Scheme. All these programmes have been ongoing and their implementation will continue even while I am in Abuja.”
He said.
Recall that Luke since the year 2012 had consistently had constitueny briefings where he had presented his scorecard as well as empowered thousands of Nsit Ubim people.
