The new Vice Chairman,House Committee on Culutre and Tourism,Alhaji Hassan Abdullahi assumed duty in high spirit and enthusiasm,inspite of...
Not deterred by the court process,he kicked the ground running by setting up the adminstration of his office at the 9th House of Representatives, to make sure there was no gap of leadership to the people of Dekina/Bassa Federal Constituency.
Armed with a ranking status,the lawmaker was not new in the business of lawmaking to the advantage of the people of his Constituency,Kogi and Nigerans at large,been a former member of Kogi state House of Assembly and Deputy Speaker of the House in the last dispensation.
The climax of employment witnessed few months into the National Assembly,was business as usual,having carried out several of such exercises as a state Lawmaker,agencies of goverrment at both state and federal level as well as the private sector.
Even though this process of employment,engagement and empowerment was always carried out in a guarded and out of public glare,it became imperative in public office to inundate constituents and supporters of concerted efforts to turn around the fortune of the people.
The harvest of unrecorded employment and empowerment exercise carried out by the Federal Lawmaker trascends his political history,but suffice to say,he did alot while in the State House of Assembly.
In his stint, empowerement items like Generators,Grinding Machines,Sowing Machines,Motorcycles,Dryers, Tricycles and other life touching equipment that will make the people self sustain economically and otherwise were provided.
This was also different from provision of social services like Borehole,Medical equipments,Electricity and Transformers to mitigate the efforts of the state government towards people's welfare.
But that is not where am going,the federal Lawamker's efforts at placing the people of the area and outside the shores into gainful employment is legendary and as old as the creation of so many institutions located within and outside the state.
It may interest the readers to know,that the chunk of youths who graduated from the Kogi State University Anyigba,Kogi state Polytechnic Lokoja, The Federal Polytechnic Idah and the States College of Education Ankpa, Kabba as well as other institutions of higher learning were the direct beneficiaries of his unaccounted gesture of employment both in the private and public sector.
Funny enough,that was not his take off point,in the area of creating avenues for self sustenance, as the current Federal Lawmaker was the genesia of the invention as far back as early 90's,when he introduced the business of motorcycle transport,now popularly known as 'Okada' .
He invented this popular economic activity that is now the major source of livelihood and self sustenance of the self employed people in the society,and assisted so many vendors into owning their personal ones,that also form the crux of his empowerment as a state Lawmaker during his empowerment program were he distributed hundreds of Motorcycles.
Not done with the indigenous way of empowerment,the Federal Lawmaker also graduated into provision of leeways to motor drivers in the area,either to own vehicles themselves or engage in hired purchase that later turn them to owners of vehicles plying so many routes long time ago.
The beginning of the recent climax of employment opportunities within the Federal Constituency,outside and within Kogi state,was in his view to sustain the trend of employment drive for his people with a view to making them realise their potentials.
All hands must be on deck to support the dual advantage of a ranking member of the House of Representatives as well as Vice Chairman House Committee on Culture and Tourism all geared towards harnessing more opportunities to leverage on detaching our people from the shackles of underdevelopment and backwardness .
-Yusuf Writes From Abuja
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