Five questions for Senator Basheer Lado
All I saw was a list of 108 campaign projects and some pictures. Under motions and bills link, I found only one bill on the urgent need to discourage Nigerian public officials from sending their children and wards to schools abroad which could not open. There was no other bill, no single motion and no […]
All I saw was a list of 108 campaign projects and some pictures. Under motions and bills link, I found only one bill on the urgent need to discourage Nigerian public officials from sending their children and wards to schools abroad which could not open. There was no other bill, no single motion and no list of motions he supported or opposed.
I also saw under his achievements link four giant projects, namely the dualization of Kano-Katsina Road, Tamburawa Bridge, Kundila Flyover Bridge and Darmanawa-Hassan Gwarzo Road, which were presented as his constituency projects in his radio jingles campaign. For the dualization of Kano-Katsina, it has been a speculated that it was initiated during late ‘YarAdua’s presidency; in any case, these are actually in fact not his projects. Rather they are projects he claimed to have initiated and facilitated on the website.
In order to have clarity about his true achievements and for the benefit of other informed people like me to be fair to him, I decided use this medium to ask him certain questions.
1. Among the 108 projects he said he had done, how many are part of his constituency projects and how much was he given for the constituency projects? We have seen solid projects by other senators, like Senator Gwarzo and Senator Gaya.
2. How many of these 108 projects are executed from his salary and allowances and not funded by constituency funds?
3. How many times did he engage other senators in any debate on motions and bills passed that would help people from his constituency?
4. How many motions has he presented and how many were passed?
5. How many times has he come to his constituency from May 29, 2011 to February 28, 2015 to consult with stakeholders (I don’t mean party visits or meetings with politicians, but the other members of his constituency whose voices matter in the national interest?
If he answer these questions to our satisfaction, we assure him of our support because what we really need in the senate is a worthy representative. As he rightly said in his radio programmes, as a senator, he is not a governor or LGA chairman, for that there is no basis for comparison with a governor or chairman. As a senator, his main duty is actually not these projects he is using to campaign with, but to make laws. His success is measured based on his ability to ensure that we are not short-changed at the National Assembly in the Nigerian project.
Professor Yusuf Adamu, Ibrahim Tela Street, Giginyu Quarters, Nassarawa LGA, Kano