The Enugu Media Village on Thursday, 16th July 2026, flagged off a Local Government engagement tour aimed at inspecting ongoing and completed projects executed by His Excellency, Dr. Peter Ndubuise Mbah, in collaboration with the Local Government Chairmen
The exercise kicked off at Igboeze North Local Government Area, where the delegation inspected:
1. Health Sector Development: we visited some of the primary healthcare centres of the 42 PHCs that were reactivated and made operational from March to June,2026, by the Mayor. Some of the facilities observed at the hospital are: solar electrification, CCTV cameras at Enugu-Ezike District Hospital, some of the workers expressively commended the good state of these equipment and the commitment of the Mayor to ensuring that the facility is optimally functional.
2. Security and Peace: while we were on transit from the boundary to the local government secretariat, we encountered over twenty (20) serious security checkpoints and military base facilitated by the council, which is the reason for the peaceful atmosphere and coexistence in the community and has drastically eliminated insurgence activities. We notably observed the gallant presence of formidable neighbourhood watch. During our interaction with one of the security personnel; Mr. Ezodo, he expressed the provision of enhanced welfare packages for the security officers.
3. Infrastructure and Rural Development: significant investment had been made in road construction and rehabilitations. We visited a linked road named after His Excellency, Dr. Peter Ndubuise Mbah and another linked road named after V. Admiral IK Ogallla, Rtd, and Ekere linked road, rehabilitation of Umuopu school road, Ogrute-Obollo road of Iheakpu-Ogugu road and other graded roads that has improved connectivity. We also visited the expansion and modernisation of the International Market, still under construction, during our interactions with one of the traders, Mrs. Chizoba Ugwuanyi, expressed her satisfaction for the presence of the market in the community. In like manner, she profoundly appreciated the visionary leadership of His Excellency, Dr. Peter Ndubuise Mbah, and the Mayor for their remarkable infrastructural transformations and also appealing to the governor to speed up the completion of the market and make it affordable for the traders.
4. Water Resources and Education Support: During our visit to some of the Smart Green Schools premises, we observed that some of the Smart Green Schools had been completed and academic activities had fully commenced with installation of solar-powered boreholes in all the schools and at Ete-Ozzi market to improve access to potable water.
5. Youths Empowerment and Agricultural Development: In our interactions with the youths, by one Mr. Chikwadodo, who informed our team that the Mayor had empowered over two hundred youths, which among them he is also a beneficiary of this remarkable empowerment in modern agricultural practices, and that the Council, has distributed seedlings and fertilisers to farmers.
On conclusion of the tour, the team (Enugu Media Village Team), proceeded to the secretariat of Igbo-North LGA led by the innovator and transformational Director General, Hon. Kelvin Uche Edeh-UKE where he interfaced with the Mayor and some of his management team on our mission to strengthen local government accountability and credible governance and to project the collective and remarkable infrastructural footprints of His Excellency, Dr. Peter Ndubuise Mbah and the Mayor, thereby bridging the misconceptions that strongly exist between the government and the citizenry; with the absolute mission of nullifying the false directives that flies without professional investigation.
The Director for Projects and Good Governance of the Media Team, Dr. Chiedozie N. Nwafor(CNM), in his speech asked the Mayor; what had been his efforts to ensure that the traders whose shops were demolished obtain new shops at the international market and to make it affordable for new traders. In the Mayor’s speech; he immensely expressed his deep appreciation to the Director General of Enugu Media Village Team, Hon. Kelvin Uche Edeh-UKE and his workaholic team for their impressive and professional work by notably establishing their presence in all the LGAs across Enugu state. The Mayor, responding to Dr. Chiedozie Nwafor’s question, said; ”that the names of the affected traders had been filed and his office is actively working in alignment with that of the Governor to ensure that the traders are duly compensated.”
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Conclusively, the Igbo-Eze North LGA, Enugu Media Village Local Government Working Committee were officially inaugurated.