Engineer Adeola Adebanjo the Labour Party candidate in the forthcoming bye-election for Surulere Federal Constituency 1 has declared his resolve to tackle frontally three critical issues confronting his constituents, if elected come February 3rd,2024.
Adebanjo made the assertion while in a chat with newsmen on Saturday, he said the issues of unemployment, poor healthcare and education will form a major focus of his mandate once secured through the ballot.
The grassroot politician, who exudes a good grasp of his constituency notes that criminality will be stemmed to its barest minimum once unemployment is dealt with, while a well thought out health insurance scheme tailored towards affordability will reduce mortality rate. as adequate healthcare will be available for all to access.
“I have three major critical points that I am looking at like in the western world, I think Nigeria should do more than saying I want to come and fix road and electricity in this era, apart from job creation.
“I believe the health sector matters too and feel we can have health insurance scheme for average citizen of this constituency, even if it is an insurance scheme of 2000 naira that can have a total treatment of 500,000 patients in a year.
“It will be given to every household we can do that because, it is not the same time everybody will be sick due that space they will now be able to go to the hospital for healthcare.
“That is why I decided that I am picking three points these are; education, healthcare and job creation. Health is germane because health is wealth, we will provide a health insurance scheme for every of our people at the expense of the office.”
Adebanjo opined that the youths all round development is a cardinal point of operation for him given the peculiarities of Surulere and environs.
“Surulere is already a developed area we don’t need to lie about that, it is a developed mini city, we have good light, we have roads, one of the basic things I think we need in Surulere.
“If you checked the numbers and percentage of unemployment rate within our youths, it is extremely high and that has made a lot of youths to get involved in so many irregular things they should not be involved in. One of my own views about job creation has to do with youths’ empowerment.
“This is one of the basic things I am targeting if I become a House of Reps member is to ensure that our youths are gainfully employed.
“If in a particular home we ensure one or two youth is gainfully employed then, violence will be reduced in those particular area and there are different ways they can be gainfully employed, it is not only by the federal government job or that by the state even right nowadays you can remain in the corners of your house and earn your money through tech that is taking over the world.
“We can bring about a techhub where they will be trained and availed the needed materials, with that once they are gainfully employed, they themselves can train new generation of youths as well in that particular field and become excellent in their field.
“I think when we reduce the rate of unemployment amongst our youths, we have found a solution to eradicate poverty.”
Engr. Adebanjo also cited sports and content creation as a veritable tool to help further turn around the fortune of youths of Surulere.
“Today the most successful people are those in the sport sector and we are so blessed in Surulere that we have two to three stadiums within that area and we have disable people practicing there every night.
“We can create sport festival for the youths with which we can discover talents spot-on, in football tournament and many more, we can use that sport which is our emblem in Surulere as a major store for talent discovery.
“Content creation is also in vogue now the ideology shared in seminars and workshops made available to these youths will go a long way in bringing out the very best in them as well.”
