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In pensive sadness with visible melancholy the women were singing this unique song as we were trekking to the long distant stream to fetch water shortly after the war.  The song went like, “ Chime ti nye mmiri gbom gbo ti ti gbom gbom, agu mmiri agugbuo Egede, gbom gbo ti ti gbom gbo.  Chime ti nye mmiri gbom gbo ti ti gbom gbo…..” In childhood curiosity one of the kids asked the adults who was this Chime that did not provide water for our community. They said Chime was a big politician in the mold of Odenigwe, Agballa, Onoh and others, who promised to provide water and even asked them to make contributions before the Biafran war.  But unfortunately, the promises were never kept. The community only saw water during the construction of the Enugu - Oturkpo road when the Italian construction company Bartalotti dug a first ever borehole in the community. Growing up we remember the popular Chime Avenue in New Haven Enugu but we did not make the connection to the Chime in the song until His

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  April 14, 2022  Contact:   info@9jaamericans.org    New York City, New York, USA.   OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR UGWUANYI:   ENUGU 2023: IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY AND LEADERSHIP LEGACY IN ENUGU STATE.   We are Ndiigbo, Ndi-Enugu, and Ndi-Waawa. We hail from the 17 local government areas of Enugu State. We are Nigerians, who became Americans. We are professionals, teachers, professors, healthcare workers, lawyers, businesspeople, politicians, activists, etc.    Politically, we are democrats, independents, and republicans, in the USA. Some of us are members of the PDP, others are APC, APGA, etc. We belong to different organizations such as Nigeria in Diaspora, Enugu-USA, and World Igbo Congress, among others.  We do not always agree on every issue.   We hope to be able to have healthy disagreements to agree. However, right now, we agree on the fundamental need to ask Your Excellency to defend democracy and your leadership legacy in Enugu State. And we are writing to you u