Bunu is a district in the Kabba/Bunu LGA that has over thirty communities, with a set of people that can arguably be described as cerebral, hardworking, loving, rich and great.
Despite the wickedness of successive government against these people, their community sense of development and commitment to self emancipation has given them the very little they have in terms of infrastructure and development.
Bunuland remains the richest, most fertile and suitable for food production and farming activities, it is a testimony that is undeniable
In the 21st century it is heartbreaking and painful to know that over 90% of Bunuland is without electricity, it is more worrisome and disturbing that there is almost no function primary Healthcare center in the whole of the communities, it is also wicked that no pipe borne water is close to any part of Bunuland.
Bunuland is one of the districts of Okun where the rest of Okun people have lived to forget about, our successive representatives appear to be clueless of the potentials buried in there. The people have continued to cope with the most deplorable road of Okegiro for centuries, people of Ihale, Taki and other interiors of Bunuland have coped with no road, water and government presence since self government began in Nigeria, yet their people continue to contribute their quota and pay tax to government.
The travails of Bunuland became more evident to me when I traveled through all the villages during my Senatorial campaign. I saw what is not seen anywhere in Okun land, I saw an abandoned vast, rich and productive land, I saw a peaceful and contented people despite obvious infrastructural and developmental challenges of decades, I saw rich culture and homely people.
As Bunu people celebrates another Bunu Week, let it be known that the reason behind this is a collective and united mission for self discovery, a genuine and intellectual drive for attention of the world and a legitimate attempts to appeal for development from every point of help.
I see a Bunuland that will be a major transit route that will spring develop, only if federal government can construct the road to Niger state from Bunuland. I see an agricultural production hub for Africa in Bunuland, I see prosperity, I see development, I see unity, I see the glory of Bunuland heralding everywhere like a wild fire.
Congratulations for the 2019 Bunu week
God bless Bunuland. God bless Okunland.
– Omoluabi Bode Adeyemi is an advocate for a progressive Bunuland
