You have described your first 100 days in office as transformative and fulfilling, do you still want to hold on to that view?
Yes, transformative and fulfilling, I would say critically and affirmatively yes, because the indices are all there, the evidence is equally there, so far what we have been able to achieve by the grace of God since we were inaugurated on the 13th of June last year 2023, the records are there for anyone to see and indeed we came here prepared to represent our people and by extension, Nigerians. The laws we make, the motions we pass, Nigerians are the greatest beneficiaries, it is not just secluded to our federal constituency. I will say that indeed for the first 100 days we have been able to surpass the expectations of our constituents.

There was an article, where you said that you will use your first 100 days, to meander through the craftsmanship of making laws. What has been your experience so far? What stands out significantly, as far as your contributions to the law making process is concerned?
You see, that is where the leadership recruitment process becomes very key, where who a constituency sends to represent them is very important. Our people say that you prepare your cap or your hat on your knee before you take it to your head, the National Assembly is not a place for any Consistency to send a representative to come and learn, because there’s no room for you to learn on the job, you hit the ground rolling from the first day, because everybody is representing their constituency, so who is going to give you that time, to tutor you in the legislative business. Everybody is trying to outsmart you.
So for you to come here and hit the ground rolling, you must do some groundwork, you must have learned what the National Assembly stands for, how does it operate, how motion is moved, how bills are crafted, how motion is drafted, how to go about navigating the office of the Clark to get things done, and all other offices that will enhance your legislative engagements. So all that has to be done before you get into the National Assembly, if not, you will spend your first one year, first two years, trying to understand the order paper, how a bill is moved and how to second a motion, before now the standing order of the house is online, you must have downloaded it and begin to study and understand the rules of the house. So by the time you have understood all of that, coming to the house the first day, nothing will be strange to you, so if the Speaker says okay he has passed the votes and proceedings, you understand exactly what it is, so it’s not strange, so it wasn’t strange to me at all, and in the second day of plenary, I was able to move my first motion.

You talk about understanding the legislative process, and coming here with a clear legislative agenda, what would you say, is your own personal legislative agenda?
Fantastic, it is captured in my campaign promises that I gave to my people.
1) Effective representation
2) Shared prosperity
3) Responsible leadership
Effective representative, simply means that every aspect of legislation that we do here for my constituents, and they will be able to know and decipher what is the content, and how they can take advantage of the laws we make, the motions we move, that is, effective representation. You distil what is done here, down to the grass root for them to equally have a sense of belonging.
Then Shared Prosperity; for every budget cycle, they are zonal intervention projects that are giving to members. It is not money, but projects, for members to take to their various constituency.
So when such project is given to members, it is my responsibility to spread this projects across the different Local Government areas that make up my constituency, and this is Shared Prosperity.
When you talk about Responsible Leadership, there are some members, after one year, two years, you start hearing of scandals, being invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission {EFCC}, so in my years of representing my constituency, I am going to show good leadership, that each time my name is mentioned on national television, my constituents, anywhere they are in the world, would be proud that indeed, that is their representative, and they will not bury their faces in shame, that is Responsible Leadership.

Have you been able to identify any Bill, that would work towards giving your people a sense of belonging in the Nigerian enterprise?
Absolutely, so far, two of my Bills have scaled through first reading. The first bill has to do with technology transfer, Bill hb591. The import of that Bill is very simple; you look at Nigeria, we have a population of over 200 million, and Bureau of Statistics in 2009, shows, that we have a minimum of 200 million handsets being used in this country every day, and that collaborates with what { NCC} Nigerian Communication Commission said, and if you look at the handsets, none of its components are produced in Nigeria, but we are the major consumers of what other nations produces. So, I looked at it and said so any nation that wants to produce a product sees Africa as the major consumer, and when you look at Africa, Nigeria plays an important role, that is why we are called the giants of Africa.
I came back from Rwanda recently, the population in Rwanda is within 13 million, that is not even the size of Lagos State, so when they say that Nigeria is the giant of Africa, indeed, our population plays a major role. So when nations of the world produce a product they always have Africa in mind, the Africa, they have in mind is Nigeria. So I said to myself, how can we leverage the population that we have in Nigeria to attract technology into our nation, and I look at the laws that we have and there’s none addressing this matter, remember that our fore fathers lived on trade and batter, so since we don’t have the technology that produces some of the components that make up the handset that we use, can we leverage our population, so that all the nations that want to ship their products to Nigeria, can give us the technology to produce a component of the product, for example, in this case of handset, please give us the technology to produce battery for handset.
I also looked at us Nigeria, and wondered if we have what it takes to produce battery in Nigeria, the raw materials, the answer was yes. The major material that is needed for phone battery is Lithium, and the best Lithium we have in the world is found in Nigeria. So a country that wants to produce one billion handsets and wants to ship them to Nigeria should produce, but without battery. Give us a technology to produce battery, so you sell your phone and we sell our battery and combine them together we have a complete handset. So with this process, technology will be transferred and we can leverage on that to produce other things that use battery, and this will help reduce unemployment in Nigeria, create GDP and forex for our nation, that is the import of my first Bill.
My second bill, has to do with the establishment of a Federal College of Technology, there is one in Jos, we replicate something like that in the South, these Bill has scaled through first reading, all these Bills will be gazetted when we resume for second reading, and by the grace of God, all of these, will help create employment. The Federal College of Technology should be located in Abak for now.

What challenges, do you envisage from multinationals and private investors on this initiative, especially as it relates to the concept of trade by barter?
You have already highlighted those challenges, truth is that, every development comes with its own inconveniences. I am elected first to make laws and it is for the Executive to implement the law, we must give them the legal framework, not minding if they will implement the law or not, but I tell you that Nigeria has what it takes to effectively enforce what I have just told you, and it would be to the betterment of us all. So multinationals will come lobby, it is going to be a trade war, China will come in, other nations will come in, and remember that we are called a consumer nation, when will we have all the resources to produce for other nations to buy from us? So the narrative has to change, they are nations in the world that collaborate together to produce a product, so we are saying that let us have a share in producing that product, especially, if you want to sell it to us, if not produce your thing and sell it to your people.

I have done all that. 98 Nwaniba Road in Uyo is one of the structures that I worked, anybody can verify, power city international I built from foundation to where it is now as a student, I went there as a laborer not as an engineer, I went there to carry blocks and cement so that I will have money to pay my fees, and that sustained me throughout school