{"id":7686,"date":"2017-01-12T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7686"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:57:26","slug":"obichere-ken-amanze","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obichere-ken-amanze\/","title":{"rendered":"OBICHERE, Ken Amanze"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Origin: Imo State Local Government Area: Owerri North Village\/Town: Umudulu Emii Contact Address: Imo State House of Assembly, Owerri Contact Telephone: 234-8037249922 I Ion (Dr) Ken Amanze Obiehere is a successful medical practitioner. He is also a pragmatic politician combining leadership qualities with the special gift of healing. Education \u2022 St Mary&#8217;s Primary School Emii First School Leaving Certificate ( FSLC) 1971 \u2022 St Patrick&#8217;s College Emcnc Enugu West African School Certificate WASC 1976 \u2022 University of Nigeria. Nsukka MB BCH 1982 Work Experience \u2022 Private Medical Practice for 23 years \u2022 Proprietor and Chief Medical Director. Kent Clinics Chairman \/CEO. Kent O- Services Co. Ltd. These two companies undertook medical services and contract jobs respectively. Membership of Professional Associations Member. Nigerian Medical Association Social and Political Involvements Member of Amala Owerri- a social cultural society for the development ofOwerri Locality \u2022 Member and one time Treasurer of Dozie Owerri- a social cultural group for the good of the community Member of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) under whose banner he won the election into Imo State House of Assembly \u2022 I Ion Member ofOwerri North Slate Constituency into the Imo State I louse of Assembly. Contributions to Community Development Been involved in lot of philanthropic services to the people in his constituency Ambition is to return to the same House the second time. A strong Christian and committed to good services and belongs to the local Catholic parish. His Role Model is Dr Mrs Kema Chikwe for her vision and action. Dr Hon Ken Amanze is a responsible family man. His advice to Igbo Youths, he says, &#8216;be service oriented and purposeful'&#8221;, and to me Leaders &#8211; &#8220;Avoid being selfish&#8221;.<br \/>\nSource Publication: <\/p>\n<p>The Igbo Icon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7686","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7686","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\/7686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}