Our Job Is To Satisfy Our Constituents —Omisore

The Chairman, Committee on Special Duties and House Services, Lagos State House of Assembly, Ipoola Omisore, has said that no lawmaker is worth his salt until the constituents are satisfied with his activities.

Omisore said this during the graduation of 350 women he trained on various vocations including tie-and-dye, paint, insecticide and soap making and the unveiling of some of the products by them at the Anwar-ul-Islam Girls High School, Ahmadiyya, in his Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 2 of the state.

The lawmaker, who called on legislators at the state and federal levels to strive for the satisfaction and empowerment of their constituents at all times, said he was poised to reduce unemployment and poverty in the constituency.

“This is the result of my determination to give employment and skill to the unemployed members of my constituency.

“It is very clear that we politicians use the women to dance around from house to house during our campaigns and after that we forget them.

“But in my own case, for the second time, I have trained 350 women in tie-and-dye and adire and you can see them displayed here,” he disclosed

He said it took him eight weeks to train the women, adding that he has also trained 600 youths on the production of domestic products like candles, perfumes, insecticides, paints and chalk.

He also said he had encouraged micro-finance banks to give out loans to such persons  at affordable interest rate.

“I also registered them into co-operative societies for them to access loans with ease,” he said.

Omisore unveiled an ICT centre and set of computers he bought for the Ojokoro Senior Secondary School in the constituency.

He said he decided to train the constituents instead of giving them grinding machines and motorcycles because “I did it sometime ago and discovered that some of them sold the machines at the gate immediately.”

He said that apart from law making, lawmakers must engage in empowerment which he called unwritten oversight functions.

“It is until we as lawmakers and politicians empower those that voted us into offices, that we can walk freely in their midst without being stoned.

“If those that elected us into offices are not able to cater for themselves and their immediate families, we can’t have peace and there is no way we can also move around freely because they can choose to attack us.

“So what I am doing today is not written as an oversight function that is not written,” Omisore said.

—Eromosele Ebhomele