Sir Levi Oguike

The Seminar was capably co-ordinated by Hon. Levi Oguike, a member of the House of Representatives, to whom I am grateful for helping to make my first visit to Nigeria most memorable.

""There is no way Ohanaeze would remain a cultural organisation and become relevant in the present political arrangement in the country,"" Mr. Levi Oguike, the House of Representatives member for Owerri federal constituency of Imo State, was quoted as saying last year.Oguike advised that the Igbo group ""should emulate Afenefere, the umbrella body of the Yoruba, which has remained very vibrant since its inception.""

The Immediate past Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Habitat, Sir Levi Oguike says ancestral title to land is superior to the Land Use Act decreed into the constitution in 1978 by the then Federal Military Government.

Oguike, a former National Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) told Vanguard property & Environment that many people are now relying on the possession of ancestral titles to circumvent the law.

Oguike who reacted to a question on the implications of expunging the law from the constitution as muted by President Olusegun Obasanjo recently explained that it would become less cumbersome to amend the Act.
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Continuing, Sir Oguike noted that "Today, we have great abuse.

WITH the planned flagging-off of the rehabilitation of the Onitsha-Owerri-Aba Road, the clamour for the dualisation of the highway may soon be a forgotten issue, Chairman of the House Committee on Habitat, Chief Levi Oguike has said.

Oguike, who spoke with journalists on Wednesday in Owerri, Imo State capital, added that the roads' reconstruction would be officially flagged-off in Onitsha, thereafter work would commence in earnest by a Greek firm, Consolidated Construction Company.

He said President Olusegun Obasanjo, by this, hopes to end the age-long debilitating problem of the South-East in the area of roads, adding that adequate measures had been taken to ensure that the implementation was carried out.

The legislator appealed to Imo and Anambra indigenes to give the President a rousing welcome, adding that the Federal Government had approved a bye-pass to run through Umuguma, Avu Ugwu Orji to Aba to reduce traffic congestion.

Seizing the opportunity to declare his intention to go for a second term, Oguike also explained that the issue of the impeachment of President Obasanjo by the National Assembly had been set aside.

He noted that the intervention of former the Heads of State, Gen.
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Oguike said the move to impeach President Obasanjo was for the good of the country, adding that it had shown him (the President) how to be law-abiding and open to representatives.

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