Etche youths want 2011 Senatorial seat
By Ada Omukpai
Etche Ethnic Youth Voice (EEYV) is appealing to the people of Rivers East Senatorial District and the state at large to support Etche ethnic nationality in the forth-coming (2011) senatorial election.
In a statement signed by the National Co-ordinator and its Secretary, Emem Chigozie and Marshall Israel Ogbule respectively, they said the appeal became necessary after a general meeting that was held last Monday.
The body said, “Having considered our commitment towards the development of the state and the country at large and in keeping with equal representation in the system, we appeal for the 2011 senatorial seat, owing to the fact that the area has not been to senate, while other ethnic groups in the senatorial zone have been fully represented”.
The body recalled how three members in the state Assembly and House of Representatives, representing Etche nation had not been effective since the inception of their offices and called on them to improve their services to the people.
EEYV called on local government chairmen from their ethnicity to engage in meaningful development that could impact positively on the lives of the people, nothing that no reasonable man-power and infrastructural development have been carried out in the LGA's.
The body advised that the time of inediocrity was over in Etche nation and called on those who believe that they could always get things through violence to shun such idea, because it would be rejected in all totality.
The body appealed to the people of Umuechem to give peace a chance in the interest of the entire Etche land and aged parents.
They gave kudos to Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi for his effort at developing the state and has urged him to consider Etche in his decisions.
