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  • Ejigbo CDAs hold elections

    Ejigbo CDAs hold elections

    ELECTION of the executive members of Community Development Associations (CDAs) in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area has been held.

    The Chairperson of the Electoral Committee, Mrs. Hontonnu Senapon, told journalists that distribution of voting materials and vehicles to electoral officials began as early as 5am and by 8am, electoral officers set out for the exercise in 55 CDAs that obtained election forms out the 74 CDAs registered by the council.

    At Ejigbo Central CDA and Fadu CDA, members were seen casting their votes while counting was done in the presence of voters and the candidates. In other centres like Dauda-Illo and Ageke West, the exercise was more of ratification of candidates, as there was no opposition against the candidature of members who vied for the 14 executive positions in the respective CDAs.

    Speaking after casting his vote at Ori-Oke Ifelodun CDA, Council Chairman, Kehinde Bamigbetan, stated that the rationale for organising election to determine who run the affairs at the CDA level, is to break the cabal that has held on to the leadership structure of the community for many years.

    He added that Ejigbo LCDA is the first council to introduce the principles of democracy in the process of choosing leaders at the CDA level.

    The positions contested for are chairman, 1st Vice chairman, 2nd vice chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary, Financial Secretary, Public Relations Officer, Welfare officer, Auditor, Social Secretary, Ex-officio 1, Ex-officio 2 and Ex-officio 3.

  • CDA raises alarm over hoodlums’ threat

    Oremeji Wasimi Onipanu Community Development Association of Ota in Ogun State has appealed to the Police to introduce regular patrols in the area to check night marauders.

    The hoodlums they claimed are threatening the residents’ security.

    Its chairman, Mr. Babalola Ebofin told The Nation yesterday that the patrols have become necessary especially as the festive period approaches.

    Ebofin said a fortnight ago, armed robbers operated in the area for about two hours, raiding five houses and carting away unspecified sums of money and valuables worth millions of naira.

    Such situation, he said, has not been witnessed in the area for a long time, appealing to the Divisional Police Station at Obasanjo junction to arrest the situation before it degenerates further.

    Ebofin appealed to the Ogun State Government and Ado-Odo Ota Local Government to rehabilitation the roads in the community, adding that they have become impassable due to the heavy waste disposal trucks that dump refuse at the famed Kurata dump site.

    The CDA Chairman said some identifiable companies whose trucks ply the roads include those of Ogun State Environmental Protection Agency (OGEPA), private sector participation vehicles (PSP) trucks of surrounding companies like those of Julius Berger, Federated Mills and others.

    Ebofin said the dilapidated state of the roads have slowed down economic activities and now constitute health hazards to the community.

    “People of the community are largely farmers and traders who have found it almost impossible to ferry their farm produce and wares to the nearby markets. It has also become practically impossible to transport sick children and pregnant women to the nearby hospitals,” he said.

  • Community seeks protection

    The Obele Esepe Community Development Area (CDA) in Badagry on the outskirts of Lagos, has appealed to police Commissioner Umar Manko to restore peace there.

    Claiming that the area has come under the terror of hoodlums, the community’s leaders said people now lived in fear.

    A resident said: “We no longer sleep. All we hear at night and most times in the day are sporadic gunshots between the warring parties. The police should come to our rescue before they kill all of us”.

    The community’s chairman, Chief Gambo Maro, sought protection from the police before people were killed.

    He said: “Some people invaded our community with guns and cutlasses claiming they are fighting over land dispute that is already being handled by the court. Some of our members were attacked by these invaders. Some were attacked at gun point and with cutlasses. They were robbed; children and their mothers were beaten in broad day light and the fears have continued to live with us”.

     

  • Osun to empower 18,000 women

    Osun to empower 18,000 women

    The Osun State  government said it would empower 18,000 women from 30 local government areas with N600 million before December.

    The Special Adviser to the Governor on Water Resources, Rural Development and Community Affairs, Mr Kunle Ige, said this at the disbursement of Grant-In-Aids to Community Development Association (CDA), in Ile-Ife Osun State.

    He said the administration had concluded arrangements with  Grooming Micro-Finance, Lagos, to offer a loan of N400 million and that the state would add the balance.

    Ige said 600 women would access the loans from the local government, enjoining the associations to organise their women into cooperatives to enable them to benefit from the facility.

    The aide said this would confirm the commitment of the administration both at the local and the state levels toward an overall development of the state.

    He said their local grant would increase from N3 million to N5 million next year, urging the beneficiaries to make the best use of the fund.

  • Stakeholders endorse CDA polls

    The chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area Hon Kehinde Bamigbetan has been praised for introducing democratic principles in the choice of members of Community Development Associations. The commendation was given by stakeholders in the council area.

    The stakeholders who are mainly active members of the 75 CDAs in the council area gave the endorsement at a forum organised by the council at Fadu Town Hall, where the chairperson of the electoral body set up by the council to conduct the forthcoming elections. Mrs Huntonu Mary addressed the CDAs on the level of preparedness and modality for the elections.

    Chairman of Community Development Committee (CDC), the umbrella body for all the CDAs in the council area, Chief Sharafadeen Alimi at the occasion praised the council chairman for showing the courage and determination to inculcate the principles of true democracy among the people at the grassroots.

    The community leader added that the idea would allow the people to freely elect representatives who they believe can truly champion their cause in a selfless manner before local and state governments. Chief Alimi urged the CDAs members to rally round the administration of the Bamigbetan in its efforts to bring development to Ejigbo.

    Chairman, Killa Community Development Association, Prince Ayo Shajuyigbe said that the conduct of election into executive positions of CDAs, as it is being introduced by the council chairman is a welcome development.

    He said that it is high time people at the grassroot embraced the culture of democracy as a way of life. He explained further that he is a two-term CDA chairman and he would be willing to step aside to allow others come on board to contribute their own quota to the development of their communities.

    The electoral body chairperson, Mrs Huntonu informed the CDAs members that the date for the election has not been fixed, but when it is time for the election, it will be held on a single day in all the 75 CDAs.

    She added that members who are interested in vying for any of the executive positions will purchase election forms for a token of N500 at the information unit of the local government at a date to be announced.

    In attendance at the forum are the council chairman, Kehinde Bamigbetan, his vice chairman, Alhaji Monsurudeen Bello-Obe and other members of the council’s executive arm.