​Constituency Projects As Birthday Gift : The example of Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki By Hon. Kayode Omotose.            .                                                                

The Pilot Newspaper Monday December 19, 2016 (Pg 24).                                                            

ISIAKA: “I’m likely to relocate to Otte Etile and look after my aged parents, supervise my farm and come to work in Ilorin on daily basis and go back. Please thank the Turaki of Ilorin and President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki. We are very happy to that our road from Ballah to Otte Etile and Express Road is under construction “.                                                   
OMOTOSE: ” Ehen Alhamdulilai. We shall deliver your message to him as well as that of the Daudu Ballah” .                                                         
ISIAKA: ”Honestly, it is only at  this moment that I can begin to understand and appreciate  your write to justify the issue of constituency projects for legislators”. 
This was the telephone  conversation between me and Alhaji Isiaka ,  my very close friend of over thirty years. 
OMOTOSE: “Courtesy of the SP, several road, water and electricity have kicked off in Kwara state  The bang started with the ground breaking  of the 1.5km Alfa Yahaya -Idigba-Gaa Aremu road. It is a concrete drainage for erosion control , earth work with full asphalt . Head of the community Ologbin  of Adewole, Alhaji Oseni Hanafi defied the rains to attend. 
NEXT was the Ballah – Otte Etile- express road in Asa Local Government. The Daudu Ballah, Alhaji Olarongbe Abdulkadir was full of gratitude to the SP; then Igbaja street, off Erin Ile road , Gaa Akanbi in Akanbi ward 1V in Ilorin South Local Government;  Adewumi Abake road , off Agbabiaka road, Gaa Akanbi, also in  Ilorin South ; then the Ubandawaki road that begins at Pakata roundabout and terminates at Government Girls Day Secondary school, near Jengbe market, Ilorin.
THEN  Balode road along Adio lodge, Oloje ; erosion control at Oke Oyi  and in Okelele, both in Ilorin East  . 
IN paying due diligence to the status of Government Secondary School,Ilorin, as a premier school in the North and the 13th oldest secondary school in Nigeria the 1. 2km road network is being constructed.
BEYOND roads, President of the Senate   also attracted a N300m contract for expansion and rehabilitation of Agba dam waterworks which was built by the colonial government in the early 1950s and upgraded by the Premier of the defunct Northern region the Sarduna of Sokoto Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello in 1959. The  low lift and high lift pumps will be replaced in a brand  new building.                                                         
TO further boost potable water N400m is set aside in this year’s  budget to provide solar powered boreholes with standby generator while N250m is to repair all boreholes that have broken down.
THESE width of  opportunities is a fallout of having the headship of the legislature   in the person of Dr Bukola Saraki. 
IN truth constituency projects are meant to mitigate immediate problems that confront the electorates within a sphere. And it takes a genuine representative of the people who knows his onions to attend to it. 
DRAFTERS of the federal budget cannot have no absolute knowledge of the entire topography of everywhere. It takes the elected official  who knows and is well placed to get the right project for his people. The bottom line is to make hay while the sun shine. As we often say in the parliament, there are no federal or state persons per se, everybody belongs to a local place.                   
AS the President of the Senate celebrates his 54th birthday  what is important is for our people to support him in the task of piloting the affairs of the 1st arm of government. Happy birthday our leader.” 
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