How I’ve impacted my constituents in 2 years ~ Sen. Adaramodu.

How I’ve impacted my constituents in 2 years ~ Sen. Adaramodu.

ABUJA (Sundiata Post) –

Sen. Yemi Adaramodu, representing Ekiti South Senatorial District, says he has done much to empower his constituents in his two years of being in the National Assembly.

Adaramodu, who is the Senate Spokesperson and Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, stated this in an interview in Abuja on Sunday.

“If you want to probe into my performance as a senator, I can beat my chest and say that I have done much for my constituents in the last two years.

“First, my primary assignment as a lawmaker is to come to the national assembly and make laws.

“But I didn’t restrict myself to lawmaking, because I know that I am very close to my people and as a first line charge of their calls, whenever they have any issue, I have to put my eyes on the ball,” he said.

According to him, in the last two years of his stay in the senate, there is no town in the six local government areas that make up his senatorial district that he has not touched.

He said from Omoke, a boundary community with Kogi to Ilasha, he had provided health clinics, street lights, boreholes, good pipe borne water and other facilities.

Adaramodu, who named several communities where he had executed one project or the other, said that he had also secured employment for many under his human development sub-head.

“I have also provided grants to scores of vulnerable people to establish petty trades. In EKiti East, Ise-Orun, Gbonyin and Ikere, among others.

`I equally attracted the construction of a pavilion at Oba’s palace in Ikere and I have brought electricity transformers which helped to address the challenging power issues in places, such as Oke-Ikere that had been without supply for about eight years,” he said.

The senator said that other areas within Ikere town were also supplied transformers to solve electricity challenges,” he said.

Adaramodu who said that he could not estimate the exact cost of all the projects so far attracted, explained that most of the projects were gotten through painstaking efforts from ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).

He said that it was through lobbying to the MDAs that he was able to attract of the projects to his senatorial district.

“As a senator, we are only entitled to Zonal Intervention Project (ZIP) of N225 million. With 48 towns in my senatorial district, what can that money do in terms of project delivery?

“In the present economic situation, the ZIP money is not enough to do one clinic or any other meaningful project,” he said.

Adaramodu said that as a lawmaker, his job was not execution of contracts or knowing how much the projects attracted cost, but to ensure that the living standards of his people got improved through provision of amenities.

He called on his constituents to support President Bola Tinubu and Gov. Biodun Oyebanji in their re-election bids