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A Reflection On The Life Of Hon. Chimaobi Sam Atu
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Rt. Hon. Chimaobi Sam Atu
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Member Representing Enugu North / Enugu South Federal Constituency
Member Representing Enugu North and Enugu South Federal Constituency in the 10th National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Chimaobi Sam Atu was elected to the House of Representatives in 2023 on a plain undertaking: that representation would be measured by what arrived in the constituency, not by what was announced in Abuja. Three years on, the constituency has given him a name of its own. He is called the City Rep, and it is used as a statement of fact rather than a courtesy.
The constituency he represents is not rural hinterland. Enugu North and Enugu South hold the centre of Enugu city: Ogbete and Coal Camp, New Haven and Independence Layout, Achara Layout and Uwani, and the Awkunanaw communities of Ugwuaji, Obeagu, Amechi and Akwuke that run to the edge of the city. It is a constituency of traders, artisans, civil servants, students and farmers, with the oldest public schools in Enugu urban and some of the worst eroded roads in the South East.
His work has followed the shape of that constituency. Roads first, because without them the markets close early and the schools empty when it rains. Then the schools themselves, then the laboratories inside them, then the fees of the children who sit in them. Then the young people who have finished school and have nothing to do, trained in a trade and given the capital and the materials to start.
On the floor of the House he has concentrated on the things his constituency would feel: a Federal Medical Centre at Ugwuaji, erosion control for Enugu, the repeal of the moribund Nigerian Coal Corporation Act, a Federal College of Nursing and Midwifery, and the South East Development Commission, which has passed into law.
Two local government areas and twenty-six electoral wards at the centre of Enugu city. It runs from Coal Camp to New Haven, from Ugwuaji to Akwuke, from Amechi to Ngwo, and from Iva Valley to Independence Layout and Achara Layout.
It holds twenty-eight public secondary schools, the Ogbete main market, the artisan quarters at New Artisan and Old Artisan, the university and polytechnic populations at UNEC and IMT, and farming communities on the Awkunanaw side that supply the city.
The constituency office at Independence Layout is open to constituents without appointment, and the member holds meetings in the communities themselves. Town unions, market associations, age grades, women's groups, church and mosque leaders and the traditional institutions are consulted before projects are sited.
This palliative is for constituents irrespective of party affiliation, religion or social orientation. Politics is over, we are now in governance.
Rt. Hon. Chimaobi Sam Atu, on the distribution of over ten thousand bags of rice at Christmas, Easter and Sallah in 2024 and 2025
The award was given in recognition of his commitment to human and youth development. Receiving it, he dedicated the honour to the young people of Enugu State and commended the organisers for building a platform around youth advancement.
He pledged support for the team behind it, including their plan for a training centre, and said he was confident that the young people of Enugu are capable of far more than they are usually given room to show.
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Three years of representation stand on this website: the bills, the roads, the classrooms, the laboratories, the scholarships and the training. Constituents are asked to judge the work that has already been done.