Communities in Uba Gaya Constituency in Adamawa State have presented their demands to the member representing their constituency and the Speaker Adamawa State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, for consideration and possible solution.
The communities cut across 6 Wards and 4 District which comprise the constituency, made their presentation at a townhall meeting organised by International Republican Institute (IRI) in conjunction with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and held at Mararaba Mubi yesterday.
The townhall meeting which was adjudged to be one of the best so far being organised by of the members of the 7th Assembly, was supported by the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Iya Abbas.
More so, the event which was well coordinated, attracted the Chairman Transition Committee of Hong LGC, all the 4 District Heads of Garha, Gaya, Uba, and Hildi, representatives of Youth, Women and Persons with Disabilities and other stakeholders cut across the constituency.
Likewise, the event provided opportunity for the Speaker and the representatives of the communities, where they deliberated on the immediate needs and how best to address them.
Several stakeholders who spoke at the historic event, commended the Speaker and the non governmental organisation for organising such forum for the electorate to present their demands to their representative at the hallowed.
But while responding on the demands tendered by the communities, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, said there is no better time to organise such meetings than now considering current happenings in their communities.
The Speaker who was accompanied at the event by Hon. Ibrahim Musa Italiya(Mayo Belwa Constituency), Hon. Abdullahi Umar Nyako(Toungo) and his dear Wife, told the gathering that the event was not organised for him to campaign but for him to come and interact with the representatives of his teeming constituents on how best to provide them with quality representation.
The number one legislator in the state told them that, though the 1999 Constitution has categorically spelt out the responsibilities of a legislator, but he has been striving assiduously to give them quality stewardship through the provision of constituency projects.
According to him, though his primary function at the hollowed chamber is to float legislations, sponsor resolutions that have direct bearing on their lives, notwithstanding, he is doing everything possible to deliver on his constituency projects most especially when resources to that effect are made available.
He assured them that he is committed to complementing the effort of the executive arm in providing dividends of democracy within his limited resources, promising to peruse on the list of problems presented for solution.
He informed them of his plans to declare free healthcare delivery service to pregnant women, give stipends to youth who are ready to set up their small scale businesses and support the education sector for quality education to their children, saying that he has been liasing with security agencies towards the curtailment of security challenges most especially kidnapping in the constituency.
According to him, the 7th Assembly is considering enacting a legislation that will provide salary structure for vigilante considering their complementary role in curbing insecurity, adding that the house is going to float a bill for enactment to make it mandatory for every government establishment to employ people with disabilities, and that already the house had employed about 5 of them.
Rt. Hon. Iya Abbas, observed with dismay the nonchalant attitude of teachers most especially in the entire Hong LGA to their official duty, intimating them of the readiness of the present assembly towards dealing with teachers who do not go to their duty post.
He assured them of including the construction of Gaya road in 2020, budget, faciliating the employment of their teeming youth, provision of agricultural facilities, empowerment programmes such as soft loan, saying that he has been impressing on the Governor to reconnect their communities with power supply.
Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, assured them of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri's effort in providing them with democracy dividends, pledging to work hard in order to deliver on his campaign promises.
In his remarks, the Chairman Transition Committee Hong LGC, Hon. Usman Inuwa Owganda, gave kudos to the Speaker, the NGO for organising such event, pointing out that PDP government will not disappoint them.
Parts of the demands presented by the representatives of the communities, Women, Youth and Physically challenged from all the 6 Wards including Garha, Hildi, Mayo Lope, Kwarhi, Uba and Gaya are; insecurity, lack of good road network,water supply, healthcare service and lack of befitting houses for the District Heads among others.
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