The primary duty of a lawmaker is to represent the people, make laws and perform oversight. This is the record of that work in the 10th National Assembly.
Constructing roads, installing solar lights and building schools are not the primary responsibilities of a federal lawmaker. They are what a lawmaker attracts to a constituency. The primary responsibilities are lawmaking, representation and oversight, and they are discharged on the floor of the House.
Within three years in office Rt. Hon. Chimaobi Sam Atu has developed and presented seventeen bills. All have passed First and Second Readings, and others stand at later stages. One, the South East Development Commission Bill, has passed into law.
Moved on the first day of sitting of the 10th National Assembly, the day after inauguration, on the ravaging effects of gully erosion at the Ugwuonyeama section of the Enugu to Ninth Mile road. He was the first opposition lawmaker in the 10th Assembly to move a motion, and a first-term member moving one on the first sitting was not expected. The Federal Government has since completed work on the affected portions of the road.
A petition brought before the House on cases of multiple assassinations and senseless killings in the Amechi and Obeagu communities of Enugu South Local Government Area, with a call on the Federal Government to intervene immediately.
After leading other lawmakers to the site of the collapsed New Artisan Market bridge on the Port Harcourt expressway, he worked with the Enugu caucus in the House to move a motion on the need for urgent Federal intervention. Through the efforts of the Enugu State Governor, the Enugu caucus and the Minister of Works, the bridge has been reconstructed.
A motion to alter provisions of the 1999 Constitution as they affect local government matters.
He joined colleagues in advocating the establishment of state policing, arguing that it was long overdue. He spoke on the matter and proposed security frameworks that fed into the constitutional amendment process aimed at creating state police in Nigeria.
Within his first week in office the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, PhD, appointed him a member of the House Adhoc Committee on Legislative Agenda, which was charged with developing the legislative focus of the House and was among the first committees constituted in the 10th Assembly.
He was subsequently appointed Chairman of the House Parliamentary Friendship Group between Nigeria and the Republic of Greece.
The bill seeks to establish a Coal Development Commission, providing an institutional framework for the development and revitalisation of the coal sector. For Enugu, the Coal City, it reopens the question of what the coal fields are for, and what the communities that sit on them are owed.
Delegation led by Sen. Osita Ngwu
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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.