Bomadi LG Polls: Barr. Labo Releases 11 Points Development Blueprint, Give Reasons Why he Wants to be Chairman

Bomadi LG Polls: Barr. Labo Releases 11 Points Development Blueprint, Give Reasons Why he Wants to be Chairman 

Francis Tayor

Warri ________ ln his desire to serve the good people of Bomadi Local Government Area with provision of adequate infrastructural development, quality education, health care facilities, electricity, security, agriculture among others, the immediate past Secretary of the Council, Hon. Barr. Labo Clifford Fun-akpo has released a strategic eleven point agenda to work on when he becomes the council Chairman.

This was made public on Monday at Bomadi, headquarters of the LGA during a press briefing, Barr. Labo Clifford noted that with his wealth of working experience in both legislative and executive business as former Councillor, Project Monitor, External Solicitor (Council Lawyer) and Executive Secretary, he is well equipped and prepared to serve the hospitable people of Bomadi better when given the opportunity to serve as the next Executive Chairman.

Labo stressed that he is well abreast with the peculiar challenges of Bomadians, adding that he is coming to render service to the people in the grassroot with a view to responding to their needs. He promised to be transparent, honest and accountable to the people when he eventually becomes the next Chairman of Council.

Read below full details of the amazing manifesto of the Kalafiogbene/Ekamta Communities born aspiring politician.

I am Hon. Barr. Labo Clifford Fun-akpo, an indigene of kalafiogbene/Ekamta, Ward Five (5). I am here to serve the good people of Bomadi LGA with humility , trust and transparency.

Edmund burke conceptualized government in the following words: “Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom”. The ultimate aim of government should therefore clearly be to give service to the people with a view to responding to their needs. In a nutshell, the only justification for the existence of government as a societal institutional  arrangement is to provide selfless service to the people. Any government that finds itself unable to do so is necessarily irrelevant.    Sequel to the above, governance should be left for those who are equipped and prepared for it. It is upon this inspiration I am offering myself to be elected as the chairman of Bomadi Local Government Council for the following.

Education:  

Education being the bedrock of society shall be given priority. My administration shall  liase with SUBEB through The Bomadi Local Education Authority (LEA)  to revamp the decadent infrastructure in our primary  schools. Most of our primary and nursery schools are not fenced and are in deplorable conditions. This is unfortunate. Financial aids/bursary shall be paid to students in professional training. Students in the Nigerian law school, Nigeria Medical School and health institutions shall be given priority.      There shall be strict monitoring of primary school teachers to ensure their punctuality .This is meant to achieve the purpose of the employment of above one hundred and fifty teachers (150) teachers by the immediate past administration. We shall renovate the Bomadi library and upgrade its facilities to encourage the reading culture.       We shall also revive the debate culture in our schools to develop the oral skills of the pupils and sponsor inter –house sports competitions for the physical and mental development of our children. Seminars, workshops and symposiums shall be organized or sponsored by council to disabuse the minds of our youths against drug abuse, cultism, prostitution, armed robbery, child trafficking, abortion and teenage births. Also, on a humanitarian ground, council shall float a special scheme to support persons with disabilities for their academic and economic upliftment.

Security :  

 In Justinian Philosophy “the safety of the state is the highest law”. Protection of lives and property shall be given premium. The Bomadi vigilante outfit shall be expanded to achieve greater efficiency. The Bomadi police does not have patrol vehicles and it is majorly part of the cause of the security deficit in Bomadi and its environs. We shall work out modalities to provide two or three patrol vehicles (siena) to enable the police carry out their enforcement duties .Also, the Bomadi police station remains unfenced. This has denied them fortification having severally suffered Invasions from irate youths. We shall partner with the police authorities in respect of the fencing and also to increase the police personnel in the Bomadi police command. As it is, the number of police officers  deployed to Bomadi is not enough for adequate security coverage. Accommodation shall be provided for the proposed increased police personnel. Registration of motor-cycles (okada) operating within Bomadi and its environs shall be effected to curb security excesses. I shall make sure there is peaceful co-existence between the border communities of Bomadi and Ughelli South local government areas.

Electricity: 

The lack of electricity in Bomadi metropolis remains an inveterate impediment to the growth of the commercial life of the area. The immediate past administration led by Hon. William Angadi spent millions of naira for the repairs of non-functional transformers and also provided money for other logistics required by BEDC for Bomadi to be lighted up. This was done despite it not being council’s constitutional responsibility but for the service of the people. What is invariably left for Bomadi to be lighted up now rests on BEDC to perfect their technical work. We shall ensure that power supply begins in full swing and sustained for the betterment of our people. Security watch shall be expanded to protect the transformers from being damaged or parts stolen.

Environment :

One of the cardinal administrative problems in Nigeria is policy inconsistency and implementation discontinuity. The immediate past administration spent millions of naira to hire swamp buggies for the opening up of blocked water channels in Bomadi and Kpakiama towns to check perennial flooding. We shall continue in that stead. Also, financial aids shall be given to communities submerged by flood.  Bomadi is an emergent urban town. it is the epicenter of the commercial life of the Ese-naebe zone. A big city in view and as such the traces and trappings of a city should start off now to be seen. It is the reason the immediate past administration acquired a land, sand-filled it and built a wood market where all wood sellers will be relocated to. We must ensure the project is completed and the relocation is enforced. This is meant to avoid haphazard settlement of shops in Bomadi town. We shall also provide a mechanic village where all automobile experts will converge to render their services. We will continue with the Bomadi city beautification plan of converting tattered, plank, and rickety shops on the road sides to block shops with council specification in terms of the roofing and painting. This project has improved the face of Bomadi town and those who initially objected can now see the beauty of it. The monthly environmental sanitation exercises shall be expanded to the cleaning  up of the thick bushes on the road sides. we shall launch a keep Bomadi city clean campaign to that effect.A public cemetery shall be provided as required in all local government headquarters in Delta State. This is long overdue.

Health:

Bomadi Local Government Area has eleven (11) Primary Health Care centres with similar challenges and needs. The challenges shall be addressed and the needs provided for their functional efficiency. In addition, the Bomadi Mobile Clinic Bye_Law, 2018, shall be effectively implemented. It was a Bye-Law I sponsored during my stewardship as a councilor. Unfortunately, it was the only bye-law that was passed by the 8th assembly. It will require a mobile medical team of professional doctors and nurses with other health officials going round the communities attending to the health needs of our people.

Agriculture: 

The poverty in our local government area is unacceptable, especially at this time of astronomical rise in the prices of commodities. “Brother Garri” is now four thousand naira (4,000). Therefore, we shall encourage massive production of garri and other staple foods to ease the burden of our people. We shall key into the Green Tree programme of our amiable governor to boost agriculture in our local government area.

Sports /Religion:

There are serveral football foundations in our local government area. Inter-communal and inter-zonal football competitions shall be organised to reward outstanding players. Inter-house sports competitions shall also be encouraged by council to reward outstanding sprinters and jumpologists.  Council shall encourage the work of God by harmoniously working with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bomadi chapter by supporting the umbrella body to countnue with the Ezon-ebe day of prayer, the Bomadi day of prayer and the annual CAN thanksgiving  to improve the spiritual well- being of our people. We are first Christians before becoming office holders as ambassadors of Christ. We shall encourage inter-faith harmony with the growing Muslim community in the area. My administration will also encourage religious tolerance in the LGA. Religionists will practice their various doctrines as far as government laws are not broken .

Ethnic Tolerance:

Inter-ethnic harmony shall also be encouraged with the growing Ibo, Urhobo, Isoko, Calabar, Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Benue communities. Most of them have become part of our voting population .The aim is to project the image of our local government area as a peace loving and friendly environment for investors.

Infrastructure:

Based on avalability of funds council shall maintain the existing infrastructure and could possibily carry out construction of internal roads. Maintance of internal roads shall also be given priority. We shall also upgrade the quality of the council pavilion which has been broken down for upgrade. 

Council shall provide pipe-borne, portable water in the communities to ward off our people drinking from the rivers and streams .

Revenue:

We shall build utility projects across the local government area for public use to increase the Internally Generated Revenuea (IGR). Collection of tenement rates shall be effected. Revenue collection shall be contracted for efficiency as council may deem it fit.

Entertainment:

I shall  encourage our young people in their various talents which include acting, writing and music production through the establishment of an  LGA music studio and other creative platforms. This shall provide self-reliance to our teeming youths in Bomadi Local Government Area.  

In conclusion i have got working experience in council business having served as a Councilor, Project Monitor, External Solicitor (council lawyer) and Executive Secretary of council , experienced in both legislative and executive capacities. I am equipped and prepared to serve you better. The best of mankind are those who bring benefit to others. I am graduate of English language and a lawyer. I have successfully done my internal defence for my Masters in Law programme in Delsu, Oleh Campus. My spirit to serve is missionary and not mercenary. I will, as your servant, give space for constructive criticism and acknowledge it as one of the ways open to the governed to exercise their natural right to demanding accountability from the government. Bomadians, please give me a chance to serve you.

C.F Labo Esq.