ABRIDGED LIVE INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR IBRAHIM SHEKARAU

Today, The 11th January 2020, Buhari Awwalu the Zonal Director of FRCN anchored a 2hr live program with Senator Shekarau on a popular HANNU DA YAWA.

Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, is representing Kano Central senatorial district comprising 15 local governments under APC. His district is the largest in terms of voters concentration in the whole federation. During the last elections, he got the highest votes of 506,234 among all his 108 colleagues in the Red Chamber.

These are 10 high lights all said by Senator Shekarau in bullets form:

1/ The most daunting challenges we faced and which need to be address in our electoral process, are twin issues of an all encompassing and aggressive mobilization of electorates to performed their civic duty and the inadequacy of police to manned the election proper.

2/ To Senator Shekarau, majority of people we represent are unaware and not conversant with basic responsibilities of law makers and rudiments of law making and to be fair, some of our elected representative too.

3/ In salvaging Nigeria to a greater height, in the prevailing situation, patriotic citizens, credible, people with proven integrity and highly productive be encouraged to be actively involved in partisan politics and seek elective offices so as to champion the Nigerian project agenda and propel our needs
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4/ It is true, members at both Chambers of the National assembly are been paid fat allowances, but these allowances are the running costs, and is similar to what’s obtained at the executive arm of government

5/ Even though there are technical challenges and hiccups in respect of execution of Constituency Projects of the National Assembly, the program is important and beneficial, it should be strengthened and sustained

6/ In the last four months I have studied the needs and peculiarities of Kano central district and have interacted extensively with various segments of stakeholders and still on going and soon will unveiled a comprehensive implementation plan for the benefit of our constituents.

7/ Our agenda is premised on three items: building a strong individual with sublime character, a sound education to complement state efforts and training productive youths in meaningful livelihood

8/ As Chairman of the Senate committee on Establishment and Public service, we will work assiduously to address lingering pension problems, is enough and worth a project to be proud of within a tenure
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9/ We will coordinate our efforts and synchronized our agenda with colleagues and other like minds to pursue common projects beneficial to all our people from the federation

10/ Part of legislative agenda in this Ninth Senate is to work harmoniously with the executive arm of government in the best interest of Nigeria.

Yours S4S

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