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From Judex Okoro, Calabar
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) support group, Reclaim Cross River State, has hailed Sen. Agom Jarigbe for empowering farmers, women, and youth groups within one year in the Red Chamber of National Assembly.
The group said Jarigbe has impacted positively on the people of northern senatorial district through numerous projects attracted to the constituency.
The group in a statement, “Kudos to Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe as he marks one at upper legislative chamber of NASS”, and signed by the Director General, Paul Ishabor, Esq, and made available to journalists in Calabar at the weekend, said Jarigbe has executed projects in all the 54 wards of the senatorial district.
The statement read in part: “Within this one year in the Senate, your impact across the 54 wards of the Northern Senatorial District has been felt positively.
“You have executed over 200 people-oriented projects cutting across all sectors. Checks showed that you have attracted and constructed health facilities, classroom blocks and furnished with teaching and learning materials, provided functional solar-powered boreholes and street lights, attracted roads to the constituents, provided various empowerment trainings and skills acquisitions to youths women and the less privileged.
“He has also assisted hundreds of farmers, traders and various cooperative societies, youths and women groups with variius empowerment schemes. He has given out scholarships aides to hundreds of students in secondary and tertiary institutions.
“Your empowerment programmes are not only monumental and unprecedented, but are needful visible, accessible and have an acceptable standard in all perspectives.”
Recounting his journey to the Senate, Ishabor said it was a battle between a lone ranger and desperate, selfish oppressor, urging the next generation to be inspired by this, defy the odds and thrive towards actualizing their dreams.
“It was a fierce battle between a lone ranger who personified the hope and aspirations of the oppressed against a bloodthirsty, desperate, selfish oppressor. But God showed up for us.”
