Leke Abejide faces infrastructure gaps in Yagba, B …

Over time, the systemic failure of Nigeria has unknowingly reorganized the outline of the responsibilities for the provision of services and the pursuit of the infrastructure development and rehabilitation, a little complicated. The construction and maintenance of public infrastructures such as roads, bridges, underground channels, drainage, hospitals, schools, libraries, supply of water systems, among others, were the responsibilities of the government’s executive arm at all levels. Or due to the escalation of the scope, the size and diffusion of these imperatives over time, the fact of sub-budtot or subfinance, or a car negligence by institutions accused of these programs, many these structures and services have decreased and advertible over the years. Community, religious missions and philanthropists intervened in places and continue to do so. The rhythm of music to undertake these needs has changed considerably, however, from the beginning of the current Republic.

Public officials, appointed and elected in recent years, are more or less considered responsible for the health and functionality of the infrastructure within their sectors. It does not matter if they are roads under the competence of federal or state governments or health centers built by the local government authorities. Four years ago, I intervened in the media, on the question of the road infrastructures deceived, decreased and degenerated throughout the country of the town of Okun. My wide treatise, entitled * a heartbreaking road excursion through Okunland, * naturally encapsulated the dilapidated state of the roads in the Yagba territory. He was kindly serialized in the main traditional tabloids and online publications, since he tried to attract the attention of the government on the commuters of commuters and okun travelers from all over the country, who had the cause of crossing the sections of Okun of the National Road Labirinth.

Leke Abejide, the member who represents Yagba Federal Electoral College in the Chamber of Representatives embraced these realities with unusual resolution from his advent in the Federal Congress of the Nation in 2019. It represents the monocultural and monolinguistic department of Mopamuro, Yagba East and Yagba West Local areas in the areas of the western local government in the western government areas. Its components are some of the most educated and cultivated anywhere in the world. In the serial, an intra-state political imbalance within the state of Kogi, however, the western senatorial area that includes Okunland and Yagbaland, has never had the privilege of occupying the leading position of the state from * Lugard House, * Lokoja. The phenomenally decrease infrastructures in that trait of Kogi State are generally put to this alienation in the 34 -year history of the state, 26 of which have been under democracy. Egocentrism is a key reality of Nigeria’s politics, a winning mentality of all in which the office holders prioritize their personal and sectional interests, above the common good.

In addition to contributing to the creation of laws for the administration of the country as a whole, in addition to attracting attention and raising “infrastructure emergency issues” in its representative basin, Abejide has had to personally and practically face the hydra of the pain and the inflicted situation of the agonics of roads, bins and discharges in Yagbaland. He was revealed so far among his voters, for compensating the invoices of external exams carried out by the students of the last year of Senior secondary schools in Yagbaland. This liability actually assumed itself philanthropically, before his induction in the national legislature in 2019. While not abdicating this responsibility, while simultaneously contained to strengthen the hands of his relatives in artisan, professional and agricultural activities, Abejide metaphorically ventured where angels feared to pass.

The condition of the roads of Isanlu, the headquarters of the Eastern Council area of Yagba, which also acts as a center of cultural and political convergence of Yagba people in three areas of the local government, has been very worrying over time. The previous governments at the state level have attempted to supervise a sort of restoration, of some roads of Isanlu, many of which have been threatened by gnawing erosion over the years. The local government authorities, at the best of the hypotheses, did not respond to these challenges and showed a coarse lack of imagination. This is often put to the fact that their Crescer are always diverted and dismembered as a dessert on the Mongers tables in the capital of the state. Abejide moved to build the access road to the * Municipio di Isanlu, * a first event center in the city. It has been completed, commissioned and open for public use. It is equally reconstructing the road by connecting * Kajola * in Isanlu and the market * Obada *. The drains are placed while we speak.

Abejide has dared practically impossible in February of this year, when he reported the forgotten, but important, but important, road, 60 kilometers * Igbagun-Ijow-Isanlu * Road, which connects over a dozen community in the agricultural heart of the Eastern Council area of Yagba. As a school teacher at the completion of the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC), in 1986, my first post was from Ponyan one of the largest communities in that part of Nigeria. I have traveled severely on that route that seemed to me and many, like the end of the world in its uncontaminated relegation. Especially if you have been previously pampered by glimpses of infrastructure for the difference in our cities. The administration of Ibrahim Idris who ruled the state of Kogi between 2003 and 2011, attempted to build the road in his kingdom. The cosmetic of the effort, however, quickly manifested itself in the rapid collapse of the road to the minimum vehicular effort and the first rain explosion.

Leke Abejide proceeded to knock on the doors of the Federal Government, to allow the start of work on the project. The road will equally benefit Yagba’s relatives in the state of contiguous Ekiti, * Omuo -ekiti * for example, being a screaming distance from Igbagun. The sum of N60 billion has been allocated to ensure the construction of a road that will remain optimally motorized in the decades to come. The tax versions will be carried out by the Federal Government, in line with the milestones reached in the construction process. In addition to Igbagun the take-off point of the project, community of Yagba such as * Alu, Orare, Ife-Olukotun, Ponyan, Agimi, Jege, Ejuku, Imela, Oke-AGI, Takete-Iso, * and the terminal on the * ijow-isanlu * Scene of the project, will be the main ephrades of the vision.

Abejide is aware of the imperative of extending his efforts in infrastructure development in the country of Yagba, the areas of the West and Mopamuro of Yagba, which are also under its legislative jurisdiction. He is drawing on the same pool of resources of his other colleagues in the federal congress, a situation that requires the definition of the priorities of the projects, without prejudice to the availability of funds. He intends to proceed with the * era-igbaruku-facing erete-omin-ara-eggbom * road to Yagba West, for which a preliminary was put aside. The roads * Ogbe to Egbe, * and the roads * Egbe-Okoloke-Isanlu Esa-Okunran *, all to Yagba West, are on the cards. The roads * Okeagi in Ilai * and * Orokere-Takete ide * of Mopamuro are in the evaluation phase to allow the articulation of authentic and implemeable invoices of quantities.

For a legislator who is the only member of his political party, the African democratic congress (ADC), in the 460 national assembly, being a “political orphan” can be substantially debilitating. But Abejide is already doing so much, even circumstances. He tried to convert this apparent handicap into a source of strength. Two years after his second term, he is maintaining his position as president of the Chamber Committee for customs and excise duties. He dominated the ropes of cooperation and collaboration with colleagues, regardless of political affiliation. He knows the ministries, departments and agencies (MDA), with whom he regularly undertakes in order to support the multisectoral defense for the needs of his components. Where necessary, he sides his acquaintances with sections of the country, in particular the north nucleus in which he studied and worked for several years, before his years in his current brief, all at the service of his people.

■ Tunde Ollusun, Phd, Fellow of the Association of Nigerian Authors, (Fana), is a professor of creative writing contract at the University of Abuja.

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