6th January, 2012
Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Olatunji Bello, has reiterated his resolve to make life better for his constituents.
He said this recently during the victory/end of year get together organised by Mainland Independent Group (MIG), a socio-political group on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area of the state.
According to him, the well being of the people should be the priority of any responsive government and as one of those in government, he found it imperative to contribute to the improvement of lives of his constituents and Lagosians in general.
The chairman of the occasion, Kayode Aransiola, said the group is dedicated to the development of Lagos Mainland and its people, saying it has also been involved in prison welfare, having donated generously to the welfare of prisoners and engaging in them in skill acquisition and preparing them for life after confinement.
Aransiola extolled the virtues of former governor of the state and national leader of ACN, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, describing him, as a great liberator of politically and economically oppressed people.
Empowerment items as sewing machine, hair dressing equipment and grinding machine, bags of rice and crates of soft drink, were given to some members of the group. The occasion was witnessed by a chieftain of ACN in the southwest, Prince Tajudeen Olusi, Special Adviser to Governor Fashola on Christian Religion Matters, Rev. Tunji Adebiyi, who represented the governor; the traditional ruler of Iwaya, Chief Muritala Oloko; Opeluwa Onido of Lagos, Chief Lateef Aderibigbe Ajose; Obanikoro of Lagos, Chief Adesoji Ajayi-Bembe; Onimole of Lagos and Dr. Tokunbo Oluwole, among others.
Mainland Independent Group, according to its coordinator, Alhaji Ibrahim Alao-Megida, was founded in 2004 as a result of alleged persistent marginalisation of majority of party members in Lagos Mainland, by a retrogressive cabal who believed in winner-takes-all syndrome.
“We were being denied party patronage within the local government, forgetting that we contributed to the victory of all elected members at elections.
“We therefore found it imperative to challenge this discrimination and I, together with Alhaji Ganiyu Salako, Alhaja Nimota Moronkeji, Alhaji Tajudeen Tiamiyu, Mr. J.B. Ojo and Kayode Aransiolan founded the group, which now has a flourishing membership drawn from the various wards in the Lagos Mainland Local Government.