My main duties “to fulfill the social contract with my constituents -sen Jarigbe declares
Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe who represents the Senatorial District of the Cross River North at the National Assembly said that his main duties of the elected senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are to fulfill his social contract with his components, outside his legislative function of making laws and supervision.
Sen Jarigbe made known this Friday 30 May 2025 when he hosted a delegation from the Cross State Journalists Forum (Crossjof) led by its interim president, Franciscica Ogar in his residence as Abuja.
This is in line with the Crossjof mandate to hold their elected officers and the nominated of the federal government of Cross River State Extraction responsible for their members and people.
Senator Jarigbe observed that it was foreseen to provide infrastructure structures and also improve the development of the human capital of his components and according to him, in the last two years he has been able to achieve most of his social contract with his people.
“We are ready to represent our people, we made some promises during the election campaign and we kept on those promises and his work in progress, taking a look at the 2024 budget, they have just approved the 2025 budget that has yet to be implemented that I can read the whole project that I did to you, but it has made sure that you did to you. Yala, Bekwarra, you will not find out, There is a council department, in the Senatorial District that does not have an infrastructure structure or the other from water, rural electricity electrification, blocks and furnishings of the road construction schools, laboratory equipment.
“When you go to the health sectors that we have provided from medicine to medical equipment, go to some of these primary health care centers that they discover before they had no simple things such as Klukometers, elegant, even thermometers, could not take the vital signals for my patients who try to make the way to my village, my plea bargain, they could not take the way for my village, which have been on the sectors. To show me at my house, who are not able to take the road to my village, who are my patients who are on guard to show me that I am on guard for my village, my plea bargaining that are my patients who are on guard that there have been their villages that there are their villages that there are my patients who have been their villages that are their villages. By making the stone base of the last phase of that road to Abakpa-Flore Strada will be motor with motor and many other roads such as the Boki road in Abakpa, I was born to meet that road in that state of the Apilate, but today that road is fixed facilitated by my office and by many other roads-shots up and are actually on what are played what our patches are in the last elections in the last elections and we have given us And as I said we have a social contract and we can do better.
The president of the Senate Committee for gas, Senator Jarigbe said he had enhanced some of his voters with some funds to start commercial activities, also supporting others with school taxes, “but at this moment, I think we have deliberately had fun with scholarships, programs and scholarships, in particular to our Pays. Ptdf, are studying abroad in Europe, in the United Kingdom.
On Human Capital Development Jarigbe Said, “We have that in different Phases, Those Who Want To Go To School, Those Who Want To Do Business We Are Doing Our Best To Support Them, We Have EmpowerD A Few of Our People With Funds To Business, We Support Our People In Different Phases but Now We have to resolutions embark in Scholarship Programs and Bursary Payment to our Students We Plan to Pay Next Month and a Few of Our People Have Been Sent ABROODS THEY ENJOYED THE SCHOLARSHIPS FROM NDDC and PTDF, in particular PTDF that some of our people study in Europe and in the United Kingdom, we are doing the United Kingdom. our best in that direction. “
When he was asked about the invoices and the motions that sponsored the tenth Senate, he said: “I have some outstanding bills, including the establishment of the Federal Medical Center, which crossed the second reading and went to the public hearing, so we expect that we arrive at the third reading and to the President for the Mr President in practice. Of the Federal University of Technology, he arrived at the president’s table Refused, including the Federal Polytechnic, the Ogoja bill and all this, here’s what happens when you are in opposition, we pray that God does it one day “.
On the current defections of some senators of the opposition to the sentence of all the progressives of the Congress (APC), Jarigbe said he was not upset, underlining that he is a senator of the PDP and his people are in PDP, so his components are appreciating him in PDP.
“Our politics is local you get what i mean, if i go to my place and tell my people i’m defecting, they will tell me to go but that are not going, so it’s about your people, my people want to stay in pdp, I know whose grain defects has a reels for defecting i not not not To judge anybody i will go with my people my people with us to stay in pdp and i will stay with my people, that’s not because we are ficking anybody but it’s about my the senatorial district and I limit myself to this.
On the proposed creation of additional States States, he Said, “The issue about Creation of State Will Be Novelle If We have this Particular President Create States in Nigeria, it has Never Happened in a Democratic Dissetting But Don’s Rule It Out and We Are Going To Do Our We Realize That! That deserted to be created in Nigeria is the ogoja state and the Think Mr President Will Grant Us That Demand and the Request for the Ogoja State, “He Pose.
In the meantime, the only senator of the PDP of the state, Jarigbe has urged the people of the Northern Cross River to be deposit and confident for the best because “I am ready to deliver the dividends of democracy and my social contract for them as I said before and also for the people of Cross River, I urge all of us to give the government to give the government for full support to not be distracted, because our government has actually distracted.