Politics
One Year Anniversary: Accolades as Sen Jarigbe showcases achievements
By Ignatius Okorocha
Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe has continued to receive Torrents of accolades after he gave an account of his one year stewardship report while representing Cross River North in the 10th Senate of the National Assembly.
Schools, Roads, Hospitals, Lightning, Agriculture ,among other projects facilitated by Jarigbe were listed to mark his one year in office in line with Nigeria’s June 12 democracy day celebration.
On the 13th of June, Yarigbe who presides over the Senate Committee on Gas was inaugurated into the 10th Senate alongside his colleagues.
According to a publication from his Media office on Wednesday Jarigbe braved the odds by surmounting the herculean task of defeating the former incumbent Governor (Benedict Ayade) and also overcame distractions of post-election litigations in order to steadfastly represent Cross River North in the Red Chambers.
In a statement issued by his Media Assistant, Mr Robben Agom despite the distractions, the Lawmaker has continued to show unprecedented dexterity and enthusiasm in the discharge of his constitutional duties and responsibilities to his constituents.
Jarigbe has since sponsored very important bills and motions at the Senate they are; Federal Medical Centre Ogoja Establishment Bill 2023; SB142, Police Act, 2020 (Amendment) Bill, 2023 (SB.54) and Federal University of Agriculture, Ogoja, Cross River State (Establishment) Bill, 2023; SB. 809. (Second Reading Passed)
His infrastructural Projects listed include: Six (6) completed Classrooms Block at Community Primary School Inyie-Ukan, Gakem, Bekwarra LGA, St Patrick’s Primary School, Ibil, Ogoja LGA, St. Pius Primary School Nkpakna, Ekajuk 1, Ogoja LGA, Mbube West Secondary School Ekumtak, Mbube West 1, Ogoja,Community Secondary School, Uhutu, Bishiri South,Community Primary School Begiaba, Bendi 11, Obanliku LGA, Onwu Secondary Grammar School Yahe, Yala LGA, Primary School Ejakpe Ukutia, Utugwang North, Obudu LGA.
Construction and Furnishing of Three Classrooms Block at Migrant Science and Technical College, Okambi, Obudu LGA, Community Primary School Dam Road, Ukwel-Obudu, Obudu LGA, Community Primary School Egbe Mbube, Ogoja LGA. (Completed) and Renovation of Four (4) Classrooms Block at Sacred Heart School, Ezekwe/Okpodon, Yala LGA.
Also listed are; Construction of an all Completed 1.5km Ibil-Abakpa Road “Alladim Section”; Bansara Road in Ogoja LGA;Rehabilitation of Abakpa-Ndok Road in Ogoja LGA; Egbe, Oboso Ojirim Road,Ogoja LGA; Olachor Okpoma Ward Road, Yala LGA; Aliforkpa Road, Yala LGA; 1.5km Yahe-Ukelle road ; Ukpagada Bridge, Ogoja LGA. (Ongoing); Igwo Road, Obudu LGA. (Ongoing); Solar Powered Borehole at Egoja Edim, Ogoja LGA. (Completed) and Electrification of Gakem-Abouchiche Communities (Ongoing).
Solar powered Boreholes have been constructed at following LGAs ; Ohong, Obudu; Okpaka, Wanokom, Yala ; Ugbakoko, Becheve, Obanliku; Ijegbemi, Mfuma/Nrigom; Sankwala, Obanliku LGA, Mfamju Ibil, Ogoja; Utanga, Obanliku ; Belesa, Bishiri North, Obanliku and Mbagide, Ogoja.
Solar powered street lights in almost all the streets of the listed areas; Igoli-Ogoja; across the ten wards of Bekwarra; Idum Mbube ; Nkim Ocharu (Ongoing); Ishindede, ; Itung ; Aburumbede ; Ntangh Mol; Nkimkol ;Ndok Zaria; Mfom; Begiaba; Ohong; Betukwel; Ukpah ; Afrike Ochagbe; Afrike Okpeche; Ugboro ; Utanga ; Bebi; Belegete; Ijegu; Yabu; Woda and Odajie.
Also noteworthy are the Electrification and installation of new equipment at Ibil, Ogoja LGA and Upgrading of Sports Facility in Canaan City Sports Club, Calabar.
Humanitarian capital projects are;Distribution of Laptops and Printers to selected Secondary Schools in Ogoja LGA; Empowerment of 110 youths with motorcycles across Cross River North; Donation of 100 Bundles of Roofing Zinc and Cash to Communities Affected by Windstorm in Bekwarra LGA; Empowerment of 110 youths with motorcycles across Cross River North; Empowerment of traditional rulers with motorcycle across the 54 wards of the Senatorial District; Empowerment of Business women with cash grant to boost business in Bekwarra LGA; Distribution of 50 carriage tricycles to stakeholders across the five LGAs; Empowerment of selected lecturers of Ukelle extraction with laptops; Empowerment of youths across the six wards of Ukelle with grinding machines, sewing machines and refrigerators; Donation of MF-375 Tractor to Jarified Brothers Cooperative; Sponsored Medical Outreach Patients in Cross River North and Facilitated training and on Aquaculture Data Management and Empowerment of 500 Youths in Cross River North Senatorial District.
Commending the Senator , Mr. Egar Mgbantul said that Jarigbe changed the narratives of his Senatorial constituents by protecting their rights and optimizing Democratic dividends in their favour.
The constituency leader described Jarigbe’s One Year in office as a blessing and Impactful to the people.
He spoke via telephone; “As we are all aware His Excellency Senator Jarigbe is passionate about his constituents and he has proven that through his infrastructural and Humanitarian capital projects.
“These projects are all verifiable in just one year. We can only pray and continue to throw our weight behind him. We are all grateful, he is God sent and we are very proud of him.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
which made him triumph over all obstacles to win in 2023, will see him through in 2027.
By Abdul-Ganiyy Akanbi, Abuja
Former National Legal Adviser of the Inter Party Advisory Council of Nigeria, (IPAC), Chief Barrister Chukwudi Ezeobika, has said that the people of the South East and South South together with other regions would not support President Bola Tinubu and his party, the All Progressives Congress, (APC ) during the 2027 general elections due to what he described as political intolerance, bigotry and parochialism of the present administration.
Barr.Chukwudi Ezeobika
Ezeobika said Tinubu, having emerged as the president “amidst doubts and unresolved moral questions as to the credibility of a partisan electoral process” by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, “has once again failed to jettison the unpatriotic, perfidious and deeply prejudiced behaviour of his predecessor in office in the way and manner he runs his government.”
He also added in a statement issued on Sunday that the President “has once again demonstrated that political Intolerance, bigotry and parochialism have become deeply rooted and fully entrenched as a well established ideology and inherent policy of the APC.
“The marginalisation and or exclusion of many ethnic nationalities who form an integral part of the Nigeria nation in various federal appointments shows, to some extent, the impunity and disdain with which President Bola Tinubu builds tensions across the nation and creates disaffection and hatred amongst Nigerians,” he stated.
Ezeobika, who was a former candidate for Anambra South Senatorial District in 2018, further noted that the failure of the Tinubu-led APC government to heed the calls of eminent jurists and major stakeholders from the South East to put an end to the protracted unrests in the region, by releasing the detained leader of the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally, goes to show that the political will to restore lasting peace within the region, is not a viable consideration or priority for his government.
He said: “The President has, however, failed to understand that such costly inaction forecloses his chances of ever getting the needed political support within the region, in his current bid to have himself re-elected.
“This singular inaction remains the main and only reason why his defeat in the whole of the South East and South South will be absolute, unalloyed and damning as the people from these regions will use every means necessary to defend their votes.
“Having nursed and superintendent over a political party that has brought untold hardships, avoidable deaths and economic strangulation to a nation once projected as the best economy in Africa, the damaging effects of the ineptitude of the current administration on the lives of Nigerian citizens remain the main reason why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is deemed unelectable in the forthcoming general elections.”
Ezeobika also alleged that the present administration has unwittingly failed to address persistent extra judicial killings across the country and numerous arrests, illegal detentions of many youths by security agencies most especially by the Department of State Services, DSS without trial.
“It is indeed deeply troubling that many of these youths are languishing in detention facilities across the Federation even without any formal trials. This is, however, in clear violation of their fundamental rights as enshrined in Sections 34, 35, 36 and 41 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), most especially Section 36 (5) which provides that ‘Every person who is charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty,” he stated.
Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, Chairman of the Senate Inter-parliamentary Committee, remarked that the purported petition from the suspended Senator Natasha is “dead on arrival.”
He emphasised that Nigeria, rather than Senator Natasha, is the member of the IPU.
A petition can only be lodged against another member state by a member state.
This implies that the IPU cannot consider petitions from individuals who are not members.
The suspended Senator Natasha is not a member of the IPU, but Nigeria is!
Additionally, the suspended Senator cannot represent the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“I served as the interim president of the IPU in Geneva in 2023, and I am familiar with how the IPU operates after presiding over its proceedings.
Furthermore, as Chairman of the Inter- parliamentary Committee in the Nigerian Senate, I did not approve or authorise the suspended Senator Natasha to attend the IPU on behalf of Nigeria to the Senate President.”
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