{"id":16347,"date":"2017-03-17T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16347"},"modified":"2017-06-07T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:27:48","slug":"nwagwu-kelechi-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwagwu-kelechi-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"NWAGWU, Kelechi Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: August, 1964 State of Origin: Imo Local Government Area: Ikeduru Village\/Town: Umuohi-Ikembara Hon. (Chief) Barrister Kelechi Kennedy Nwagvvu was born in August 1964 to the Late Chief Felix Nwagwu and Mrs Eunice Nwagwu of Umuohi. Ikembara Community in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State. He is an able leader and a disciplined and principled organiser. He is currently. the Honourable Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly. Education \u2022 Iva Valley Primary School. Enugu \u2022 Emmanuel College Owerri. Imo State, left 1980 \u2022 Enugu State University of Science and Technology LLB ( Hons) \u2022 Nigeria Law School Abuja BL Employment History and Job Experience Hon Barrister KK Nwagwu as popularly called by friends and host of admirers, has held some strategic positions in public and business sectors. \u2022 Principal I lead. Ken Chambers. Enugu \u2022 Former Chairman. K.C. Klick ( Nigeria) Ltd \u2022 Former Chairman. Arugo Hotels Ltd Enugu \u2022 Former Chairman King Mart Investment. \u2022 Former Chairman. Big Time Estate Agency \u2022 Legal Adviser, MI- Vision Communications Ltd Honours and Titles \u2022 Omeudo 1 of Nkwerre \u2022 Odera ofAvuvu \u2022 UgoOha 1 ol&#8217;Okata \u2022 Ebube Dike of Iho Dimeze \u2022 Ikemba of Ikembara Other Honours \u2022 Senior Fellow, of the Awards and Honours International Ltd \u2022 Grand Patron of the same body \u2022 Distinguished Grand Advocate for the Aged from Afric Organisation for the Aged in recognition of all his long years of philanthropic support and donations towards the Welfare of the Aged in society. \u2022 Member of the Board of Trustees of Parliamentary Journalists Forum of Nigeria (PYFN) Recipient of 2005 Top Lawmaker Award from the National Grassroots Forum of the People Democratic Party (PDP) His role model is Chief Achike Udenwa, the Executive Governor of Imo State whose humane character and focused leadership style have challenged and encouraged him. He is married to Dr Mrs Uju Ifeoma Nwagwu. His advice to the Igbo Youths &#8211; &#8220;be industrious and cultivate the Spartan Spirit. You should strive always to protect the identity of the Igbo people and all NdiIgbo and Nigeria as a country &#8220;. To the Leaders, he says: &#8220;strive to protect the integrity of the Igbo people and leave worthy legacies for the succeeding generations of Igbo Sons and Daughters &#8220;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16347","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16347"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}