Senator Mustapha Sani’s Midas touch

Senator Mustapha Sani Mohammed (Niger South) is the personification of the popular saying: ‘Actions speak louder than words.’

This is because without being a loud voice at the Senate, as many high-flying legislators are wont, he has executed hundreds of projects in his zone, which has been mired in infrastructural dearth for ages.

He has also attracted projects worth billions of naira to his constituency, a feat many loud-mouthed lawmakers could not achieve. His achievements have endeared him to both young and old people of his constituency.

Few weeks ago, a coalition of youth from his zone ranted in the media that his performance is below average. If truly the coalition exists and not a hatchet of his political opponents who could have used non-existing groups of youth to score a political goal against the senator, definitely, they are not living in the zone. Everybody who lives in the zone knows that the senator has so far sunk more than 50 motorised boreholes across the zone, to ameliorate the problem of potable water.

He has installed more than 20 transformers and renovated dozens of schools, providing all that are needed to make the classes conducive for learning. He has built three cottage hospitals, to reduce the challenges his people face in accessing healthcare. These hospitals are located in Yelwa, Lanle and Landzun ward in Bida LGA.

He is vigorously working towards entrenching digital literacy in his zone, in view of its importance to development in the times the world is currently in. ICT centres are in Mokwa, Bida and Lapai.

Thre skills acquisition centres at Enagi and Agaie; when commissioned, unemployed youths in the zone will become skilled and self-employed.

He is connecting dozens of villages to the national grid. In Gbako LGA, Nuwanya, Tsowadzuru Tako and Tifin poles are being planted and cables are being wired to put the communities off ‘powerlessness’ forever. Some villages would equally enjoy same treatment in a matter of weeks.

However, nothing will shape the narrative of his ‘senatorship’ like the reconstruction of Lambatta-Lapai-Bida road, which he facilitated, thanks to his ranking membership of the Senate Committee on Works. Few weeks ago, FEC approved N33 billion for the reconstruction of the road which has been neglected since Shehu Shagari administration. The sham the road has been has been causing a dip in the zone’s economy.

Nupeko road and Gawon’s lodge road in Bida have also been approved for rehabilitation, thanks to the senator. Everyone knows the infrastructural deficit in Niger South. For a senator to have done all these, he’s really a man with a Midas touch, in spite of his axiomatic reclusiveness because across the country, only a few senators could match these lofty achievements.

His achievements are so astounding that members of Niger South Youth Forum, led by the uncompromising Jibrin Abdullahi Muregi, paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja a few days ago.

The forum’s position was that their assessment of his projects gives him away as a pacesetter in the zone.

To become a pacesetter, you have to have a Midas touch.

Maryam Gata,

Minna

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