Abiru Facilitates 960-Capacity Mini Stadium, Empowers 1250 Traders With N62.5million

Senator representing Lagos East senatorial district, Sen. Tokunbo Abiru, has facilitated a 960-capacity mini stadium to Epe division of the district.

The mini-stadium, according to the Senator, comprises football pitch, basketball and volleyball courts, administrative offices, changing rooms and other amenities.

Addressing the guests at the commissioning of the projects by governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday, Abiru said that the remodelled Oluwo Fish market comprises 240 open stalls, 82 lock up stalls, 5 open floors, 12 toilets and 4 new offices for Iya Oloja and Baba Oloja, Tourism Board and Local Government Staff Security post.

Aside the sponsoring of 13 private member bills and co-sponsored three other bills, which included motions, Abiru said he had prioritised three key pillars of legislative role, empowerment and endowment to deliver dividends of democracy to his constituents.

” I must publicly acknowledge and appreciate the magnanimity of the Presidency, through the Office of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the projects we are commissioning today, those we had commissioned in the past and the ones that are yet to be commissioned. I specially thank His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, and Her Excellency, Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on SDGs.

” The projects attracted to Epe town that are being commissioned today are: a 960-capacity mini-Stadium , which include; Football pitch, Basketball and Volleyball courts, administrative offices, changing rooms and other amenities; and the remodelling of the popular Oluwo Fish market which now comprises 240 open stalls, 82 lock up stalls, 5 open floors, 12 toilets and 4 new offices for Iya Oloja and Baba Oloja, Tourism Board and Local Government Staff Security post”.

While empowering 1250 market women and traders with N62.5million, Abiru disclosed that the leaders of the markets in the 16 LGs/LCDAs were those who selected 50 members each in their localities totaling 800 market women, while the remaining beneficiaries were nominated by the party structure.

NewsBeatng reports that the empowerment also includes the distribution of Hand-planters to about 200 farmers, along with financial grants of N20,000 for our farmers in the agrarian part of the district.

According to him, the projects and support for market women and rural farmers are part of the fulfilment of the social contract he solemnly had with the people of the Lagos East Senatorial District while seeking their mandate in 2020.

Commissioning the projects, Sanwo-Olu said that they will have direct impacts on the socio-economic reality of the town, praising Sen. Abiru for “diligently” representing the district in the National Assembly.

He added “Over the last 18 months, Senator Abiru has dutifully delivered the dividends of democracy in several areas and on multiple fronts, not just in the primary mandate of law-making, but also in terms of life-changing empowerment and endowment.

“Today, we are here to commission a number of infrastructure projects by him, some of which are facilitated through the Office of the Special Assistant to President Buhari on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), occupied an esteemed daughter of Lagos, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire.”

Sanwo-Olu expressed delight on the benefit of the projects to the residents, noting that the market project was commerce-oriented, designed to improve the livelihood and earning capacity of beneficiaries. The recreational facility, the Governor said, is a project that would positively affect people’s lifestyle and translate to health benefits, as well as improved quality of life.

The Governor said the lawmaker had lived up to the ideals of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and to the legacy of transformation instituted in Lagos since 1999.

He appealed to the beneficiaries to see the projects as public resources entrusted in their care, urging them to productively utilise the facilities with the utmost sense of responsibility.

Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), applauded the lawmaker for making women empowerment as cardinal focus of his activities, noting that such action remained key to strengthen inclusion.

She said the Office of the SDGs in the presidency had facilitated rehabilitation of more than 10 schools and four healthcare projects in the district.