In an exclusive interview conducted With A reputedly Party Stalwart And Contesting Aspirant For The Post Of Chairman, Alimosho Local Government. Hon. Adebisi Francis Atoyebi gave an avid description of His IMOLE Political Campaign Agenda, harped on Youth Engagement & Empowerment Initiative, Agriculture Inclined Micro& Macro processing food chain diversified investments, With Accelerated Drive for Infrastructural Development are Key Areas To Watch Out For By Entirety of Stake holders and Residents captured in Alimosho LGA.
According to the Former Council Executive Vice Chairman when asked of his intentions for joining the Chairmanship Race, He disclosed that’ I believe the good people of Alimosho should be expectant of the deliverables in accordance with good governance and excellence in public administration, having served at different capacities as first a Youth Leader of My Ward To LGA And State as Well being grounded in active politics for the past twenty five years, more so I have served under a host of House of Assembly Members thereby gained wide experience in the art of legislative business to mention a few.’
Going further am a licensed contractor of lagos state to other States with a lot of influence which I can bring down to impact the local government positively.
One Vital Area That I intend to address is that of Youth Empowerment, ‘We must engage the Youths in all areas of their endeavours, talking about Digital ICT Professions,Sports,Creative Arts While More Emphasis Must Be Placed On Equipping Them With Up to Date Educational Standards in order to Reform And Explore the Very Best Of Their Potentials For Nation Building at grassroot levels.’
That’s the key and where we lost it as a nation, we must encourage our youths to further their academics with provision of scholarships and other incentives so as to boost their morale in surmounting the challenges and economic constraints of the times we live in.
The Issue of Basic Social Amenities and Infrastructural Development Also comes to mind bearing the significant role this perspective plays as a catalyst for socio-economic growth and reinforce government’s commitment towards deepening its relationship with the masses at large.
There must be accelerated development of in road network system which will aid the ease of transportation activity for residents and business owners who ply our roads on daily basis, these are tax payers who deserve nothing but continual reassurance of government’s policy implementation for the general interest of All and Sundry.
To cap it all, one pivotal area that my administration will delve in is that of Agriculture, which is my Major Assignment, because when there is food on your table, it is agreed that one’s penchant to indulge in crime related activity or the urge and temptation to engage in full blown illegitimate enterprise would reduce drastically, being a farmer myself I know what it takes to manage and train prospective young farmers especially the youths who want to take up farming as a profession. I will send them on home and away training program’s with the view of having access to start up grants so as to become independent and contribute their quota to their immediate society.
Also to give credence to the renewed hope agenda of our President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is a tactical visioneer given his foresight on taking up the ardous task to reposition our dwindling economy through innovative reforms which I believe has the magic wand to bring Nigeria Back On Track through His Transformative Policies And I want to acknowledge the efforts of our Governor, His Excellency Babajide Sanwo-Olu Who through The T.HE.M.E.S Agenda has performed Satisfactorily to the amazement of Lagosians. I intend following suit in complementing the good works of the President And That of Governor Sanwo Olu by closing the wide gap between local government administration and electorates at the grassroots.
When Asked To Comment On The Bill In Motion For Scrapping Of The 37 LCDA’s With regards To Supreme Court Judgement On Local Government Financial Autonomy Passed By Lagos State House Of Assembly. The Soft Spoken Technocrat cum Politician Had This To Say ‘ The Recent Bill Which was passed through the Lagos state House Of Assembly to review the Supreme Court Pronouncement On Local Government Autonomy, I think its a welcome and wonderful idea by the house of Assembly members, it shows their wealth of legislative experience and gives an insight to their credibility at oversight functions in their respected capacities’.
‘Every body Knows Lagos State Is Running 20 local Government And 37 LCDAs,and the composition of these political structures of third tier government was done in the bid to ease administrative governance, Alimosho for example as an LGA, has Boundary With Ogun State Government At Aiyetoro after Ayobo/Ipaja LCDA, While The Same Applies To That of Sango-Tollgate ,Ogun State Having Boundary With Agbado Oke LCDA, Now Tell Me How Can One Person Sit Down At Akowonjo To Oversee This Large Expanse Of Land Mass All Alone, That’s Not Tenable if I must posit.
Let me state it categorically that the Lagos House Of Assembly Did Not Cancel The LCDA’s As Wrongly Implied,What it did was to remoulding the political units into administrative office. The same purpose of financial Autonomy is for efficient distribution of allocated funds accordingly to make the job easy which will be supervised by the principal local government, it is very simple, There are going to be elections held at the entire twenty local governments in quote while the remaining Thirty Seven Local Administrative Office holders Will Be Appointed By The Governor Subsequently To Be Ratified With The Approval Of The Lagos State House of Assembly, It is A Nice And Welcomed Development For Us As Aspirants And We are going to Give the Executive Governor the Necessary Support He Deserves With Regards To These Novel Arraignment, Hon. Adebisi Francis Atoyebi Concluded.
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