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It is now a vogue that the subject of discussion in Kogi political development is now the ranking Senator Atai Aidoko Ali, specifically his stint at the red chamber and the impact on the entire people of Kogi East, Kogi state and the entire country on the whole.
If that is the way for the senator to get more popular, it is a welcome development, but it behoves on us to know that some persons for sheer subjectivism, hatred and the desire to be heard on medium of communication did not consider to get to the root of the subject been discussed before going to town to ‘misjive’ on the public domain.
Alas, the truth of the matter is that we will not engage anybody or carry out a damage control tactics, but shall continue to reel out the opposite of the whole topic, that is informing the public on the facts and the truth of the matter now and whenever the need arises.
There is no controversy that Kogi East senator, distinguished senator Atai Aidoko Ali had spent eight years in the lower house and also running a second term in the senate even though it is shrouded in legal tussle, but it is always strongly propagated that in all these terms he has done nothing for either the people of Ankpa Federal constituency or the entire Kogi East. This assertion is farther from the truth and figments of imagination of the originators and their cohorts.
I remembered vividly the allegations of building public toilets in public places by Senator Atai Aidoko Ali during his stint at the lower house. He was nicknamed, turned to a laughing stock for prioritizing building of toilets in public places. That was his albatross as our people have forgotten that defecation in open places is one of the dangerous scenario that attract serious health hazards in our various public institutions.
Until the decision to build public toilets by the senator in major public areas of Ankpa federal constituency consisting of Abejukolo, Ankpa and Okpo, there was no willingness on the part of managers of these places like the motor parks, stadium, hospitals to address this serious health hazards that such serious health practices may inflict on the health of the people.
Aside all these, he built skill acquisition centers, garri processing /smoking factories and went ahead to pay bursaries to students of Kogi East origin in higher institutions of learning. He gave out scholarship to augment their studies; the first and the last for now of its kind in the entire Igala/Bassa enclave. This is different from his singular idea of mitigating payment of students school fees directly by placing some of the individuals on the personal sponsorship of his office. It is unwise for him to continue to blow his own trumpet.
Within his eight years stint at the green chamber, Senator Aidoko secured jobs for unemployed youths and graduates and also facilitated several appointments into state and federal boards, agencies and parastatals. So, it sounds funny and myopic when the slogan of not done anything for his people continue to filter in all self contrived essays for sheer cheap political scores.
It was no longer news that the Kogi East senator, during the seventh senate between 2011/2015, provided over forty major projects scattered all round the nine local government areas of the eastern flank consisting of transformers, boreholes, skill acquisition centers, clinics, rural roads and classroom blocks/office blocks to ameliorate the dearth of social infrastructural development.
Currently, there is an on going 36 units of various projects which include a mother and child hospital in the same part of Kogi East due for commissioning as soon as possible aside facilitating the provision of over 500 million naira facilities at NABDA zonal office in Idah and the 60 million naira extension of high tension electricity from Onitcha Igo junction to Ugbamaka Iga, Iga ikeje, Ogugu, Eboyi, Okpo and Imane to solve once and for all, the epileptic power supply to the ancient communities.
All these projects are too visible and noticeable for a good assessor to know the giant strides of Senator Aidoko along with his primary assignment of sponsoring six bills in his short stint of the 8th senate with many contributions on the floor of the senate.
Although, this may not augur well for political assessors to give credence, but precedence and posterity remains the best judge.
– Abubakar Yusuf
Abuja
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