Having spent quite some time in
the House of Assembly in Lagos, Honourable Abdul-Wahab Olumuyiwa Jimoh, the Deputy Leader is one of
the law makers in Lagos state whose representation has brought succor and great
improvement to the lives of the people he represents.
In his visitation recently to
his constituency, people of the area, in different ethnics all came
out en-mass with the pledge of returning him back for the continuity of their
representation.
Olumuyiwa Jimoh in this
interview x-rays his contributions towards making life better for his people and
residents of Lagos state as a whole through law making and friendly policy. Excerpts:
May we meet you Sir?
My name is Olumuyiwa Jimoh, I
represent Apapa Constituency 2 at the Lagos state House of Assembly.
I was born in this community (Badia) about 45 years ago; I attended St. Theresa Primary school; and had my secondary education at Tin Can Island High school; in Apapa and later I proceeded to the prestigious university, University Of Ibadan,
Having been in the House of Assembly
for some time; how would you describe your achievements so far?
As a parliamentarian;
everywhere in the world we are to make laws and formulate policy, and to the best
of my knowledge and to
the best of my abilities, I have been able to discharge
my official duties adequately well. Not only that, I will soon advance in
discharging my social responsibilities as part of my personal contributions to
the society.
This includes, facilitating
international seminars; and local seminar for my constituency. Also, I have
been able to put four buses on the road for students from my constituency to eradicate
truancy and encourage punctuality.
I am really happy for doing
that because when the idea was put in place, the motive behind it was to regulate
punctuality of students and to ease transportation system.
Based on the positive outcome
of the project, students were happy, parents and guardians too couldn’t hide their
happiness and
letters of commendations were written by Principals from various
schools, they all appreciated the gesture and on our part; we give all adoration
to God. To mention but few, this and many more are what we are doing besides
law making and policy formulation to better the lives of those we represent.
With the large crowd here today, it shows our representation has created lots of
impacts in their lives.
Going forward as you seek another
term in office, what should people you represent expect from you?
To whom much is given, much is
also expected; they should expect more dividends of democracy, more representation
than what they have experienced now. By the time I return back to the house, I
will be higher in ranking than what I am now; and that will serve as an advantage
to the constituency.
In your representation what
is the place of the youths?
In terms of representation, we
represent everybody including youths and every other members of the society. I
will urge our youths to be part of the process politically and they should
think fundamentally. Our youths should take education serious, read and be involved
in the political activities in the area positively so that their quota too
could be felt.
Security in Apapa local government;
what has been your contribution?
The issue of security is
international, not limited to a particular local government. What is causing
Boko Haram? Is it not insecurity, what is the problem of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, =Taliban,
all these are caused by insecurity at one point or the other. The security of
every community is in the hands of every member of that society not particular
to those that are elected to represent the populace.
On our part, we have been able
to put security measure in place, to secure and protect the lives and
properties of the people we represent. Meanwhile, the essence of governance as
stipulated in the Nigeria constitution is welfare and security of the people,
and once that have been put in place, every other things will follow.
In a couple of weeks, there
would be general elections, what words do you have for your people?
They should vote for all APC
candidates. Our style of governance and system methodology is different; we
have always shown to the people that we do not want to rule them; rather we
want to govern them. Our party is an ideological party; we are institutional builder
with lots of ideas that have people’s welfare, security and every other thing that
comes with good governance.
APC government is working for a
better and robust standard of living for our people. We want to make Lagos a
city that can be compared with any other mega cities in world. What has been in
the public domain all these while is a Mega city, but I want to assure our people
that soon we shall transform Lagos to Smart City, this will measure up to Dubai
standard.
With this from the government,
it is imperative to get prepared and that is where the issue of good representation
comes in. Life is dynamic, so therefore, we must not lag behind; meanwhile government
is all about continuity.
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