Civic Accountability · Nigeria

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Previously in Ebonyi:
Term report
6
Total tracked
4
Kept
1
Partial / mixed
1
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Infrastructure
Concrete road infrastructure
Kept
The promise
Promised transformative road infrastructure, drawing on Umahi's background as a civil engineer.
Assessment
The administration delivered over 1,000 kilometres of roads, pioneering the use of durable concrete (rather than asphalt) construction on signature projects such as the Abakaliki-Afikpo Road and the Abakaliki Ring Road, earning Umahi the nickname 'Concrete Governor'.
Economy
Industrialise Ebonyi through sector clusters
Kept
The promise
Promised to industrialise Ebonyi's economy across all three senatorial zones.
Assessment
Built three industrial clusters covering agriculture, technology and human-capital development, one in each senatorial zone.
Agriculture
Revive the Abakaliki rice value chain
Kept
The promise
Promised to revive agriculture, including the state's historic rice trade, through schemes such as 'One-man, One-hectare' and farmer input subsidies.
Assessment
Abakaliki rice processing capacity rose from about 120 metric tonnes to 180 metric tonnes a day under the administration's agro-empowerment programmes.
Revenue
Grow internally generated revenue
Kept
The promise
Promised to reposition Ebonyi's IGR by blocking leakages and harnessing the state's solid-mineral deposits.
Assessment
NBS-tracked IGR rose from ₦13.59 billion in 2020 to ₦26 billion in 2021, a 91.33% year-on-year increase, one of the larger single-year jumps recorded among the states in that period.
Governance
Transparent management of public funds
Broken
The promise
Campaigned on prudent, transparent stewardship of Ebonyi's treasury.
Assessment
An investigative report alleged Umahi transferred more than ₦3.6 billion in government money to his own construction company, Brass Engineering & Construction Nigeria Limited, across his time as deputy governor and governor; Umahi denied wrongdoing and sued the publisher for defamation.
Security
Restore peace in communal-conflict areas
Partial
The promise
Promised to secure the state and manage recurring communal tensions.
Assessment
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on Effium in January 2021 after clashes over control of a motor park escalated into sustained intra-communal violence; community petitions later put the death toll at over 500, indicating the crisis was only partially contained.