{"id":8878,"date":"2017-01-26T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8878"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:47:12","slug":"ogodo-hon-mrs-patience-uwa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogodo-hon-mrs-patience-uwa\/","title":{"rendered":"OGODO, Hon. Mrs. Patience Uwa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher, Politician,<br \/>\nDate of Birth: November, 1958 State of Origin: Ebonyi Local Government Area: Ohankwu. Hon Mrs Patience U. Ogodo is a teacher and mentor of many people. Her role as a motivator, director, protector and defender of the interest of the oppressed is played either when she is in the class room teaching, at home looking after her children and husband, or in the State House of Assembly in Abakaliki.<br \/>\n Education \u2022 College of Education Eha- Amufu N.CE Upper Credit.<br \/>\nJob Experience and Services to the Society \u2022 School Teacher for many years \u2022 Resigned to join Politics- Joined People&#8217;s Democratic Parly ( PDP) \u2022 Chairman. Local Ohankwu Local Government Area \u2022 Member. Board of Directors, Presidential Hotel Enugu \u2022 Elected Hon Member Federal House of Assembly representing Ebonyi\/Ohaukwu Federal Constituency 2003 Contributions to Community Development \u2022 Prudent Management of Resources- material and human when she was Chairman of the Local Government. \u2022 Built up the area into a living place &#8211; provided amenities that enhanced people&#8217;s lives. \u2022 Contributed a lot to the rebuilding the income base of Presidential Hotel. \u2022 Encouraged Women education in the state and in the Local Government Area as the chairman. \u2022 The Constituency has experienced a lot of progress in terms of Women empowerment. \u2022 Created more job opportunities and Equal opportunities for all irrespective of gender or class. \u2022 A capacity Builder \u2022 Some infra structures have been attracted in the area since her election into the National Assembly. \u2022 The Women have had a turn around in their fortune. \u2022 A reasonable and dynamic contributor to the Debates at the National Assembly. Hon Ogodo is happily married and blessed with five children. She has remained consistent in her crusade for Women Empowerment.<br \/>\nShe hasbeeninstrumental to the development of infrastructure in the area; off: c\/o House of Representative, National Assembly Complex, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Source Publication:<br \/>\nThe Igbo Icon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8878","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8878","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8901,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8878\/revisions\/8901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}