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HOW BAD IS THE APC IN PLATEAU? PHASE III (Shabul Mazadu)
Governance does not begin and end with the executive arm (s), but the legislature and judiciary too.
In Plateau State the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a Minister, two senators, and five House of Representatives members.
MINISTER
The Minister is Dame Pauline Tallen of the Ministry of Women Affairs.
Prior to her nomination and ascension to the Ministerial position, Dame Pauline Tallen has contributed immensely to women empowerment in the state. In 2018, one thousand six hundred widows (1600) at her instance, benefitted from the Federal Government ten thousand naira (N10, 000) for Micro Small Medium Enterprise (MSME) disbursed by NDE.
In 2019, one thousand women in Plateau were trained in Cosmetology through the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), and each went home with a starter pack and six thousand naira (N6, 000).
Coming on board as the Minister of Women Affairs, she has projected Plateau in good light with her hard work and commitment to duty.
Under her watch her Ministry has embarked on the distribution of Seven hundred and seventy four (774, 000), gas cooking cylinders to the entire local government areas of Nigeria. That is, one thousand gas cooking cylinders per local government.
Under the Covid-19, Dr. Aisha Buhari, our First lady, sent palliatives through the Ministry of Women Affairs which Tallen did not hoard to Plateau State in May, 2020 and was distributed.
Tallen sent trailers load of palliatives to Plateau on three occasions. The third time she brought them along side with the Minister of Disaster Management. But unfortunately terror was unleashed on the palliatives by vandals.
She has been a great contributor to orphanages, school for the Deaf in Jos and so many organisations and groups.
Her advocacy and fight against: rape, domestic violence and child marriage are remarkable likewise her efforts in the domestication of Violation of Vulnerable Peoples Rights Act, Child’s Rights Act and the quest for girl-child education.
She is shouldering the international mantra of the HeforShe in Nigeria as Minister of Women Affairs.
Tallen has trained hundreds of people through NDE in various ways to handle their businesses in preparation of Central Bank of Nigeria’s loan of the social intervention program of the Federal Government. Some have gotten the loan, while others are yet to.
The nature of her ministry and jurisdiction, when compared to what she does in bettering the lives of women and children, she deserves the utmost respect of all Plateau citizens.
RT. HON. IDRIS MAJE
Maje is the member representing Wase Federal Constituency and also the Deputy Speaker, Federal House of Representatives in the National Assembly.
Maje is doing remarkably well in his legislative affairs and empowerment of his constituents.
He empowered his constituents with tricycles running to hundreds of thousands, likewise grinding machines, motorcycles, sewing machines and tractors in their hundreds.
Maje also constructed roads, provided boreholes and bridges to his constituency.
He secured employment to thousands of Plateau citizens without recourse to political party, religion and local government.
Maje raised a bill which was passed for the creation of a Federal Medical Centre in Wase.
HON. ALPHONSUS LONGGAP KOMSOL
Komsol is the member representing Mikang/Shendam/Qua’an Pan Federal Constituency in the National Assembly. He is the first APC member of the House of Reps of the constituency.
Komsol passed bills for the creation of a Federal Polytechnic in Shendam, Federal Medical Centre in Piapung and Federal University of Agriculture, Namu.
He constructed three classroom blocks and three others undergoing construction.
Project of installing solar panels in some communities in his constituency are ongoing, likewise road construction.
Komsol sponsored recruitment of some of his constituents into the Police Force, paid JAMB fees for many students seeking admission into the university and purchased hundreds of grinding machines, motorcycles and sewing machines to be distributed soon.
During the raining season last year, he provided hundreds bags of fertilisers to farmers, provided relief materials to victims of floods and palliatives during the lockdown for his constituents.
He also secured employment in the federal civil service to many of his constituents.
HON YUSUF GAGDI
Gagdi is the APC member representing Pankshin, Kanke and Kanam Federal Constituency in the National Assembly.
Gagdi built Dr. Sunday Jacob Examination Hall at KADA Special Academy Dengi, a school that is providing free Secondary Education to orphans and children of the less privileged.
He completed the building/renovation of the Palaces of some Traditional Rulers across the constituency and some are ongoing.
Gagdi constructed three classrooms block with complete furnishing at GSS Kor in Pankshin, secured over 284 permanent federal appointments to his constituents, empowered constituents with Water Pumps with suction hoses for irrigation farming, Grammazone insecticide, Rice Herbicides, Fertilizers, Grain storage Bags and cash Stipends worth Millions of Naira to over 300 beneficiaries within Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam Federal Constituency; and amidst COVID19 pandemic, he distributed foodstuff to constituents worth 10 million naira as palliatives.
He distributed palliative worth (N700,000.00) to 70 selected social media influencers and bloggers across Party and Constituency lines on the Plateau and N300,000.00 to some selected pressure groups.
As part of efforts to sustain Small and Medium Scale Enterprises after the COVID 19 Pandemic, Gagdi distributed refundable soft loan to Entrepreneurs within PKK worth N45 million.
He had also paid the medical bills of more than 100 constituents across the three Local Government Areas.
He lobbied for COVID 19 loan of N475,000 to 24 constituents each across the three Local Government Areas of the PKK through the Central Bank of Nigeria, empowered constituents with over 20 motorcycles, sewing machines and grinding machines across the three Local Government Areas, and supported People living with disability with 50 wheelchairs.
Gagdi built and furnished three class room blocks at a community secondary school at Dungung, Kanke LGA.
He is set to empower constituents again with 400 motorcycles, 400 grinding machines and 400 sewing.
These are but a few of the achievements of the APC minister and federal legislators in the National Assembly.
Add their achievements to that of the Governor, Rt. Hon. Simon Lalong and judge how bad is the APC on the Plateau.
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