OUR great constituency, Alimosho Federal Constituency, has reached a point where technocratic acumen and strategic leadership skills must be brought to the table to radically and progressively transform her current position into a formidable economic powerhouse for the benefit of the greater number of her hard-working constituents.
With our invaluable democratic mandate, we want Alimosho Federal Constituency to be transformed into one of the top three local economies in Nigeria, and a local force to reckon with economically and locally.
It is the vision and mission of every constituent that Alimosho Federal Constituency be transmuted into a prosperous land as envisioned by our founding fathers and leaders. We want Alimosho Federal Constituency to far surpass the anxieties that may exist; so the voice and actions of our Member of the House of Representative-elect should be louder than verbal expressions; and his word should indeed, be his bond.
OUR EXPECTATIONS
• As the Member, House of Representatives, Alimosho Federal Constituency, we want you to inspire confidence, resuscitate ardent patriotism, and provide hope for the disillusioned youth so that the constituents can confidently look in the face of the future in a shared enterprise to attain commercial, corporate and better representational achievements.
• You must play significant roles in the security of lives and properties to safeguard our businesses, promote as well as preserve our local trading skills, and establish thriving corporate subsistence in the Federal Constituency, by proposing, sponsoring, or supporting a motion/bill for the modernization of Nigeria security system, from the National to Local Level, and reinforcing this to efficiently support community policing, while operations effectively within the nation's laws.
• In line with your Legislative duties/functions, we would be glad if you propose, sponsor, or support a bill on the reformation of the educational system and systematic training, with the sole purpose of empowering the youth with skills and opportunities to achieve their dreams, while ensuring that the growing ones, who go into trading before completing basic education are allowed to catch up with further educational aspirations.
• Furthermore, we also want you to propose, sponsor, or support a bill on the economic revolution that will harness the innate capacity and entrepreneurial spirit of the hard-working constituents. This will reposition our local communities, States and Nations as the gateway to a formidable economic hub for West Africa. Exportation of goods and products will not be a take but will be seen and experienced by our people who will enjoy the dividends; while our local industries will have access to incentives that will tone their craft.
OTHER ASSET AGENDAS WE WANT YOU TO LEGISLATE ON INCLUDE:
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
OVERVIEW
The Constituents of Alimosho Federal Constituency are enterprising people.
We want you to:
(1). Partner with the LGA and LCDA Chairmen/Chairpersons respectively, to improve on existing markets to make them ultra-modern.
(2). Consult and engage the communities to ensure that their markets are fixed and restored to full operations to the satisfaction of the concerned communities
(3). Introduce a community-friendly microfinance bank to serve as a platform to create support and credit facilities for small-scale business owners and upcoming entrepreneurs, helping them kick-start their passions.
(4). Opening up of industrial business parks to assemble and accommodate both service providers and product distributors in one space, to complement each other and the needed growth.
(5). Support and influence the improvement of many markets in partnership with the State and LGAs/LCDAs.
(6). Support and influence the establishment of branches of major banks, to assist the daily transactions of business owners and traders.
HEALTHCARE.
OVERVIEW
Most of the local PHCs in Alimosho Federal Constituency don't have equipped first responder facilities and qualified healthcare givers to handle emergencies. Our biggest problems in the health sector include brain drain, scarcity of healthcare centres, and lack of maintenance of the existing ones.
OBJECTIVES:
(1). Increase access to quality healthcare for everyone.
(2). Increase the presence of qualified healthcare givers in Alimosho Federal Constituency.
Therefore, we want you to:
(1). Attract and advocate for the improvement of the healthcare centres in Alimosho Federal Constituency using the power of the Office of Representative and ensuring that medical doctors, youth service corps etc. are posted to these centres.
(2). Partner with NGOs and foreign healthcare organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO) and Bill and Melinda Gates to set up health clinics in Alimosho Federal Constituency.
(3). Increase the frequency of other Foundation's health outreaches to the communities.
(4). Partner with NGOs and foreign health organisations to set up medical emergency/trauma centres across all the wards which will be equipped for first response and emergency transportation of critical cases to Alimosho General Hospital or Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Metta, Lagos.
(5). Partner with international health organizations to train and equip our constituents and indigenes from Alimosho Federal Constituency wards to be employed as Community First Responders (CFRs).
(6). Sponsor and support legislation to ensure that at least 13% of the nation's annual budget is dedicated to the health sector, and used to improve the existing healthcare facilities, bringing them to international standards.
(7). Sponsor and support legislation of creating a National Centre for disease control in Southwest for all infectious diseases.
(8). Sponsor and support legislation to provide at least a medical ambulance van in every political ward in the Constituency.
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, FEDERAL PRESENCE AND URBANIZATION.
We want you to:
(1). Partner with Federal Government, State Government, NDDC, and World Bank Community Development Initiatives to construct and fix significant roads in the communities.
(2). Synergize with the power authorities and advocate for the electrification of our currently off-grid communities.
(3). Introduce solar-powered mobile charging stations across communities with poor electricity penetration.
(4). Attract more government-funded skill acquisition centres across the Constituency to train our youth to become employable.
(5). Ensuring that the Ecological Funds are allocated to fixing our Constituency erosion menace.
SOCIAL WELFARE.
The welfare system in our communities is broken, neglecting the old, the sick and the needy in our local communities. There are no functional homes for orphans, indigents and the elderly who have been abandoned.
We want your welfare program to;
(1). Create functional orphanages and homes for the less privileged.
(2). Create Alimosho's first Old People's Home for the care and nursing of people who are old and have no one to care for them.
(3). Aid indigents in the local communities.
(4). Periodic Food Support Programs for the less fortunate members of society.
(5). Support the prompt payment of pensions to pensioners.
(6). Aid the movement of the elderly in the local communities through the subsidized transport scheme to be operated by the Constituency Office.
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND SPORTS.
The youth are the powerhouse of any society. They are actors in progress or regression and constitute the workforce that executes policies and programs for the betterment of the community. The need to educate, support, and empower Alimosho youth for the modern economy cannot be overemphasized and is one that should be very close to your heart.
We want you to:
(1). Build a skill acquisition centre for the empowerment of young people with profitable skills.
(2). Lobby and advocate for job opportunities for Alimosho youth in both the public and private sectors.
(3). Encourage and support participation in sports through the creation of leagues, tournaments and opportunities.
(4). Support building a strong football academy, a centre for training youth professionally for gainful careers in sports.
(5). Provide a sustainable mentorship program.
(6). Provide a special fund for support and investment in young people in the business of entertainment (Music, TV, Media, and Sports etc.)
(7). An IT centre to teach youth software development and offer computer coding courses to make them competitive in the modern employment industry.
EMPLOYMENT
(1). Create and maintain a modern and comprehensive human resources database of the people of Alimosho Federal Constituency through community leaders and housed at the Constituency Office. This will serve as a recruitment and services engagement tool for Alimosho graduates and job seekers.
(2). Leverage representatives' quota to secure the employment of Alimosho graduates into Federal parastatals.
(3). Lobbying and networking with potential employers of labour in other to showcase our employable youths.
(4). Support the operation of a vocational centre to train tailors, welders, mechanics, carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, electricians, cooks, stewards etc. to become a hub for the private sector to recruit employees in need of such services.
SECURITY.
(1). Supporting the Voluntary Policing Service Groups in the various communities across the Constituency by equipping and providing them with motorcycles, uniforms, touches, communication radios and other security devices.
(2). Partnership with the Nigeria Police Force and LG/LCDA Chairmen/Chairpersons respectively to ensure improved security in our communities.
WHAT YOUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA SHOULD BE:
In line with the legislative powers granted a member of the Federal House of Representatives by Chapter 5, Part 1 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ("CFRN", "Constitution"), as our Members of the House of Representatives Elect, we want your primary legislative agenda to see to the following:
EDUCATION
We want you to propose and sponsor an amendment to the UBE Act to increase the scope of compulsory free education from primary school to tertiary level for all Nigerian citizens because we believe that wholesome education is the only way we secure a future for our nation. So, we also want you to sponsor the amendment of Nigerian Education Laws to introduce compulsory coding courses in primary and secondary curricula. This will bolster and reposition Nigeria in the Future Tech-Based Economy.
EMPOWERING INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATIONS.
(a). Venture Fund Corporation (VFC).
We want you to initiate a bill for the setting up of the Venture Fund Corporation (VFC). Modelled after Singapore's Early Stage Venture Fund (ESVF), the VFC will seed funds with selected venture capital firms (VCFs) to invest in indigenous early-stage technology start-ups in specific areas of social impact like renewable energy, food finance etc. The VFC will be invested on a matching basis and the VCFs will have the incentivized options to buy out the VFC's share of the fund within five (5) years by returning the VFC's Capital with interest.
This will stimulate investment in innovation, ensuring that Nigerian entrepreneurs can access adequate capital to innovate and stand a fighting chance in the new economic world order.
(b). CrowdFunding Framework.
Crowdfunding as an emerging financing method for SMEs as well as creators of innovative ideas is fast gaining ground around the world but it is yet to be fully appreciated in the Nigerian market. It is a shame that in 2018, despite having a lending system that kills start-ups and only favours the wealthy, Nigeria, either through the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or other regulatory bodies, has no piece of legislation allowing or regulating crowdfunding as a means of raising capital, encouraging innovative business models and building scalable start-ups. We want you to ensure that SEC is tasked to speedily provide a regulatory framework for equity and otherwise, crowdfunding initiatives.
HEALTHCARE.
We want you to sponsor and support legislation to ensure that at least thirteen per cent (13%) of the nation's annual budget is dedicated to the health sector, and is to be used to improve the existing healthcare facilities, bringing them to international standards.
We also want you to support better pay for healthcare workers as a way of combating brain drain.
Also, we want you to support any other legislation aiming to improve our health sector.
CORRUPTION.
As a matter of priority, we want you to sponsor and support legislation giving teeth to the investigation arms of our anti-corruption agencies to ensure the wholesome prosecution of corruption charges.
Also, we want you to propose and support legislation on assets forfeiture mandating an accused person to prove the legitimacy of the income used to acquire ostentatious property/assets like cars and buildings, etc. or risk forfeiture of that assets.
COMMERCE.
Export in Nigeria is a huge industry capable of earning well over its $44,466,366,757 income from 2017. However, certain challenges still affect the ease of international trade.
So, we want you to support policy and legislation:
(1). To enhance the effectiveness of the existing Export Expansion Grant (EEG) from the Nigerian export proceeds of CBN.
(2). Reducing the complexity and bureaucracy of processes and documentation at the Nigerian Ports for Nigerian exporters.
(3). To allow the establishment of mini ports around the Lekki axis, Lagos as a way to decongest the roads to the port and the ports themselves thereby ensuring ease of trade. To establish export desks manned by trained personnel in all current and potential trading partner countries across the world.
PRISON REFORM.
The prison system in Nigeria is in urgent need of reform. There are over 75,544 prisoners in Nigeria and the government currently spends N14,000 per day to feed a prisoner. Every year, billions are spent on prisoners without any reasonable form of prisoner rehabilitation and preparation for seamless reintegration into society upon their release. This is a waste of financial resources and the manpower of the prison population.
Our prisons are not as resourceful as they should be. They should be properly managed and the manpower therein maximized to greatly contribute to Nigeria's GDP instead of being avenues to waste money.
So, we want you to sponsor and support legislation to ensure that the prison system is privatised (as applies in other developed nations). The new prison system will be run by private companies wherein the government shall hold substantial shares (49%). Under this system, privately run prisons will put the prisoners to work in a way that rehabilitates them, equipping them with the right skill-set for reintegration into society, as well as generating income for the government and private sector.
VOTING RIGHTS.
It is estimated that about 116 countries have a system that allows their emigrants to fully participate in their electoral process through external voting. According to globalirish, i.e., a "2006 study of countries that allow their emigrants to vote included: 21 African nations, 13 North and South American countries, 15 Asian countries, 6 Pacific countries, and 36 European countries." Diaspora Voting Rights are rights long past due. Nigerians in the diaspora contribute to the Nigerian economy. Their ability to vote ensures their investment in nation-building and solves the issue of brain drain. Nigerians abroad should be encouraged and allowed to elect the leaders they wish to create the country that they desire.
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In this regard, we want you to support an amendment to the constitution to give Nigerians in the diaspora the right to vote and participate in elections.
Also, nation-building is a collective effort, requiring the active participation of citizens in the election of their leaders. As a means of encouraging patriotism and nation-building, we want you to support and sponsor legislation for the establishment of mandatory voting for all Nigerian citizens residents in Nigeria.
CONCLUSION.
However, as we all know democracy thrives on a tripod of accountability, rule of law and good governance, we want you to uphold at all times these important tenets of democracy, as the holder of our mandate.
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