— Human Development
Human development is also known as economic empowerment. It can be defined as a package designed to promote better living for the people. It is any action in a locality taken by an agency, government or individual with the primary intention of bringing financial and or economic benefits to the people of such locality. In fact, human development liberates people from mental and physical dependence.
As stated in my mission statement, human development is crucial in my seven-point agenda. This is informed by the fact that my grassroots constituents are wallowing in penury, impoverishment and abject poverty in the midst of unending plenty of natural endowments.
Accordingly, remedial gestures shall be embarked upon to cushion the scorches of poverty on our grassroots dwellers.
In fighting this disastrous monster, three approaches will be applied in accordance with three main economic groups of our society.
(i) Primary Initiative
As the name implies, the target under this initiative are the mini-scale entrepreneurs whose engagement cannot be expanded due to inadequate capital base. This group of people include inter-alia tailors, barbers, salon operators, shoe makers, vulcanizers, grocers and petty traders.
This set of businessmen will enjoy grants from my private purse. The package will be within the range of N10,000 and N25,000 for the sole aim of expanding their business engagement.
(ii) Secondary Initiative
Under this approach, I will focus on the small-scale business entrepreneurs and avail them financial and machinery support. Such business persons encompasses rice millers, commercial motorcyclists (Achaba), grain grinders, timber saw millers, welders, electricians, plumbers, etal will be assisted to have machineries of their own.
(iii) Tertiary Initiative
The policy thrust of this initiative is to cater for the contractors and political heavy weights of our constituency. This approach will identify at least two persons from the respective five local government areas each year and buoy them up to getting contract awards or other patronages from the Federal Government.
