Lawmakers promise creation of more polling units in FCT area councils
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By Perpetua Onuegbu
Abuja, Feb. 28, 2025 (NAN) Two federal lawmakers, Sen Ireti Kingibe and Hon. Joshua Obika, have pledged to facilitate the creation of more polling units in the FCT area councils before the 2026 ward and area council elections.
This, they said, was to ensure that no eligible voter is disenfranchised.
The lawmakers gave the pledge on Friday in Abuja during the inauguration of a 20,000- litre capacity solar-powered borehole constructed by Kingibe at Maitama Angwan Sarki in Orozo area of the FCT.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that recently, a team of Ugandan parliamentarians had joined Kingibe, representing FCT in the senate, in inaugurating a similar 20,000-litre capacity solar-powered borehole in Gwarimpa area of Abuja.
NAN also reports that the senator was joined by Obika, representing Abuja Municipal/Bwari Federal Constituency at the inauguration of the project on Friday.
Kingibe, who sympathised with the residents, particularly women, over the inconvenience of non-availability of potable water in the area, noted that such an ugly situation was now over.
The senator commended them for their patience, promising to include them in her numerous empowerment programmes coming up soon.
Kingibe and Obika also jointly inauguted a WAEC-standard ICT laboratory at Government Secondary School, Orozo.
NAN reports that the laboratory was donated by Ofon Essential Foundation, in collaboration with the Obika’s office and FCT Secondary Education Board.
Obika said that the facility was expected to qualify the school for internal Computer Based Tests (examinations) and facilitate students’ preparations for the migration of WAEC/ NECO examinations to CBT.
Principal of the school, Mrs Bariyat Haruna, thanked the lawmakers for the provision of the facility, promising to ensure its safety and proper utilisation.
She, however, requested for relocation of the institution, saying that its population had out-grown the space and facilities available, thereby forcing her not to admit all the students seeking for admission in the school.
In separate interview, the lawmakers underlined the importance of ICT and education, stressing that nothing could be achieved without education and ICT.
Kingibe particularly described education as the key to development, and one of the cornerstones of her legislative agenda.
She pledged to pay the school fees of 100 indigent students and build two more ICT laboratories in the area council.
Kingibe also promised to provide a solar-powered generator for the school and continue to lobby for the needs of the schools, including ICT laboratories, across the nation’s capital. (NAN)
