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admin Personal Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Constituency Affairs, Khadijat Kareem, has reassured Nigerians that the president remains committed to the growth of Nigeria.
Khadijat spoke at a Town Hall with ‘critical stakeholders’ in Lagos State. She had held such meetings in many other constituencies across the country.
The meetings, according to her, were to provide room to deliberate on challenges facing constituencies and report back to the President to find solutions to them.
According to Khadijat, the President understands the importance of building infrastructure in Lagos and other parts of the country, as an important springboard for development in the country, particularly Lagos as the commercial centre of Nigeria. She also expressed the president’s commitment to completing all ongoing federal projects in Lagos State.
She added: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is committed to addressing challenges facing Nigeria and Lagos State in particular. He promised to support projects that will enhance the quality of Lagosians, as well as meet the needs of our constituencies.
“The President is not resting because he wants to bring renewed hope to Nigerians.”
Khadijat also assured stakeholders that every constituent in the country will get what they deserve, and that their complaints will be reported back to the President.
Lagos State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Funmi Sessi said the stakeholders meeting was necessary to build a relationship between the government and the people.
On issues concerning Lagos and the Southwest, Sessi said Lagos should be given special status by the Federal Government.
She noted that Lagos is home to Nigerians from all parts of the country, ‘which has caused financial strains on the state in providing public infrastructure’.
The labour leader told the presidential aide to inform President Tinubu to embark on massive housing scheme in the Southwest, build more specialised hospitals in Lagos, handover abandoned Federal Government property to the state government, establish a food bank in Lagos, invest in agriculture in the Southwest, and improve the transportation system in Lagos.
State President of the Trade Union (TUC) Gbenga Ekundayo drew Khadijat’s attention to some government policies that need further fine-tuning.
He noted that some economic policies have cut down the purchasing power of Nigerians, and so appealed to the president to ‘slow down’ on such policies.
“The president should expedite actions on the Renewed Hope Housing Scheme. He should try and win the youths to his side using sports. The president should also look into the lifestyle of political appointees, which is sending the wrong signal to Nigerians,” Ekundayo said.
The Iyaloja of Computer Village, Ikeja, Bisola Azeez, who represented the Iyaloja-General, Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, lamented the lack of access to loans by traders.
She said: “Our challenge as traders is having access to loans to augment our working capital. The real people that need the loan don’t have access to federal government loans because of too many requirements. The Federal Government should fashion out means so traders can get loans.”
Activist and founder of Coalition of Oodua Self-Determination Group, Rasaq Olokooba, urged the President to take quick action on the formation of state police.
“Our farmers can no longer go to farm because our farms are no longer secured. The security of Yoruba land is germane. There should also be special status for Lagos State because it has the highest number of residents,” he said.
Other contributors expressed worries over the attitude of political appointees who abandon their constituencies after getting into office and relocate to other areas.
They urged the president to compel politicians to live within their constituencies for the benefit of their people.
