Behold Nigeria’s Best Performing Speaker of the Year 2019 (Official), Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji MNSE.
20 Reasons He Won the Award
1. Sponsor of Abia State Equal Opportunities Bill 2019 ✔✔
2. Sponsor (with others) of Abia State House of Assembly Service Commission 2019. This Bill was passed into law within the first 100 days in office ✔✔
3. Legislative Intervention of the 7th Abia State House of Assembly in ASEPA ✔✔
4. Successful legislative itervention in the violent border clashes between the people of Lokpanta, Umunneochi, and their neighbors from Ebonyi State ✔✔
5. Successful legislative intervention in the violent border clashes between the people of Isu community in Arochukwu LGA that got many people killed and many more others displaced. After the intervention by the 7th Abia Assembly under the leadership of Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji, the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and representatives of the State government visited the victims and donated relief materials to them as resolved by the Assembly ✔✔
6. Legislative intervention in salary payments ✔✔
7. Successful legislative intervention in ABSU ✔✔
8. Successful legislative intervention in ABIAPOLY ✔✔
9. Legislative intervention in ASCETA ✔✔
10. Legislative intervention in HMB ✔✔
11. Legislative intervention on the issue of abandoned estates littering the State ✔✔
12. Quality and speedy screening of Commissioner nominees ✔✔
13. Unification agenda: Executive/Legislature cooperation at the State level ✔✔
14. Unification agenda: State Legislators cooperation/collaboration with federal legislators of Abia origin across party lines
15. The delivery of a remodeled Assembly Complex ✔✔
16. Quality oversight functions on MDAs & ongoing government projects ✔✔
17. Open and transparent plenary sessions ✔✔
18. Quality leadership ensuring a united, peaceful, stable and productive Assembly
19. Well documented personal commitment to the people’s welfare & empowerment through the Direct Touch Initiative
20. Ensuring and promoting Executive/Legislative interdependence without compromising the independence of the legislature for a more peaceful, progressive and prosperous Abia