{"id":14632,"date":"2017-06-03T21:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=14632"},"modified":"2017-06-03T21:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T21:10:38","slug":"senator-ovie-omo-agege-where-are-the-constituency-projects-by-ejiro-olomu-torosu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=14632","title":{"rendered":"SENATOR OVIE OMO-AGEGE: WHERE ARE THE CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS? by Ejiro Olomu Torosu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all honesty and humility, I thank Senator Ovie Omo-Agege for sponsoring the bill giving legal backing to FUPRE and the eventual passage of the bill into law.<br \/>\nThough, there were claims and counter-claims as to how the politics of the bill was birthed, I give credence to the Obaisi for seeing that it gets to it logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>However, the business of a Senator does\u200b not end with sponsorship of bills\u200b alone but it includes\u200b oversight functions.<br \/>\nThere are many oversight functions but I wish to weave this piece around constituency projects alone. When I say constituency projects,I want us to take our minds to the area of capital projects for the constituency and human capital development of the constituents.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Before I go to the topic proper, I want you to know that the Urhobo nation has only one seat at the Senate and we can&#8217;t afford to play politics with anybody sent to represent us via that seat at the hallowed chamber.<br \/>\nTherefore,we must keep such person on his\/her guard everytime and everyday by calling him\/her to order when he\/she errs and giving same commendation when the need arises.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember vividly what happened at Oharisi primary school, Ughelli, where Urhobos across party lines gathered to welcome Senator Ovie Omo-Agege after being confirmed as the new senator representing Urhobo.<br \/>\nThe senator was very happy and Urhobos present at the event were happier on the ground that he was telling the gullible ones what they wanted to hear like the biblical king that wanted to hear prophecies of victory at the battle that he was about to embark on.<br \/>\nWhen the prophets of doom came telling him that he was going to be victorious at the battle,he was so excited to the extent that he condemned the only true prophet that told him not to go to the battle because he would be defeated.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=13363&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though, the tenure of Senator Ovie Agege in office as Senator, will come to an end in 2019, which is merely two years from today, the man who told us that those giving us bore-holes for water, school books,Okada and other mobilities as constituency projects were insulting us, has not been able to show us any constituency project that he has executed till date, rather he has come up with a new language,<br \/>\n&#8220;I influenced this and I influenced that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sir, we are happy that you are busy influencing everything even when the roads in Orogun where you hail from could be described as something worst than an eyesore, but we demand that you show us exactly what you have done with monies meant for constituency projects!<br \/>\nAs it is your culture as the Facebook Senator that updates us with proceedings in the hallowed chamber,we demand that you state in understandable terms the following:<\/p>\n<p>How the pipeline surveillance job you promised Urhobo went.<\/p>\n<p>Sir, within the first four months of your being in the Senate, you told us that some persons were diverting pipeline surveillance job meant for Urhobos and as a man that had our good at heart, you asked us to submit names of our people from the various kingdoms of Urhobo for employment.<br \/>\nI personally submitted a comprehensive list as demanded by you to fulfill my part of the deal but your part of the deal remains a mirage till date!<br \/>\nSir, what happened?<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Was the pipeline surveillance job a mere smokescreen to mislead us to believe that you are a new man considering the fact that your past political records as personally confirmed by you during the electioneering period was nothing to write home about?<br \/>\nIf the pipeline surveillance job is real and it is working then we call on you to tell us.<br \/>\nWho are the beneficiaries of the pipeline surveillance job?<\/p>\n<p>Sir, state the various constituency projects that you have embarked on since you assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>Sir, you feed us with news on daily basis that you recommended Mr &#8216;A&#8217; today, tomorrow Mr &#8216;B&#8217; for one good thing or the other.<br \/>\nHow many of those recommendations have yielded fruits and who are those you recommended?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14633\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Omo-Agege-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sir, as you give answers to the questions above, I want you to consider the quote below:<br \/>\n&#8220;He who permits himself to tell lies once, finds it much easier to do it a second time and a third time,till it becomes habitual and he tells lies without attending to it and truth without the world believing it.<br \/>\nThis falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart and with time depraves all all its good dispositions.&#8221;- Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>My Senator sir, I want you to take into cognisance the fact that Democracy imbue people with the right to make choice and our decision making process will be most influenced by the past and present activities of those that we have sent to represent us at various levels of government.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks and may God bless Urhobo nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all honesty and humility, I thank Senator Ovie Omo-Agege for sponsoring the bill giving legal backing to FUPRE and the eventual passage of the bill into law. 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