1. Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission, SIEC has fixed October 19th, 2024 for kogi State local Government council poll, the recent supreme Court judgement granted the 774 local Government in Nigeria autonomy sets this ball rolling.
2. As we have in kogi state caretaking head at the council, Alhaji Ibrahim Haruna was appointed as the caretaker chairman, ijumu local Government Area over six months ago for good governance at the grassroots till date.
3. However, the man moved in and set the planned motion on the wall with special focus on:
4. AGRICULTURE, 150 Hecters of land was cleared and allocated segmentally to the Farmers across the local Government Area, 50 Hecters for ijumu Arin axis ( middle ) 50 Hecters for ijumu Oke axis ( up ) and 50 Hecters for Gbede axis with free seedlings distributions to ease his readiness to make food stuff/items cheaper for the people of ijumu local Government Area which yeld results. His Government just took delivery of two Functional tractor to be in use mainly by ijumu farmers at subsidized rate.
5. SECURITY, Within his six months led Administration. He showed serious interest by prioritize security and he immediately employed 50 local hunters personnel, this singular step sent signal to the criminal, terrorist that we have new sheriff in ijumu. His regular security meeting where issues, evaluation and strategy are discussed has greatly placed ijumu communities peaceful as the local government land boundaries are in numbers.
6. EDUCATION, education is the bedrock of any society to function well. Alhaji Ibrahim Haruna DSTV a month after in the office constituted local government education committee headed by his supervisor for Education to go round the entire local Government for on the spot assessment challenges for immediate possible solutions. This education solution team identified issues solved for quick results and it was a success. personally, DSTV has good number of ijumu origin on his scholarship scheme list before his adventure into the council.
7. ECONOMY/MANGER CEMENT, ijumu local Government played host to manger cement factory at Iluagba-Gbede that will soon commenced production, as a local Government he has secured placement for ijumu origin both in managerial position and others, this he did with his link, connection and relationship. In addition, ijumu market association received his audience on farm produce pricing too with happiness that has direct impact on the final consumers.
8. UNITING IJUMU PEOPLE, Alhaji Ibrahim Haruna emback on unity tour and visitation to ijumu sons and daughters making waves in global economy to see reasons in a new ijumu under his watch, this was commended as first in ijumu to happened, the results of this visit is telling back at home as many business activities of these ijumu world acknowledged indegene is branch in ijumu currently.
9. If in his little time as the caretaker chairman is results-driving and oriented as this; then it’s a win-win situation at the October 19th kogi council poll for him because of the master plan drawing board is too bold to judged he can do better if given more responsibility executively.
10. A bird at hand is better than one million bird in the bush, No vacancy in ijumu.
19.7.2024