Councilor donates motorcycles, fix roads for constituents in Taraba
Callistus Agwaza, Jalingo
The Councilor representing Pupule ‘C’ Ward in Yorro local government area of Taraba state Mr Ishaya Markus has distributed six motorcycles to his constituency members and mobilized local labour to build culverts and fix roads across the local government.
Speaking to our correspondent on Friday, Markus said that he was always driven to give back to his people in any way possible even before becoming a Councilor and he has to go out of his way to mobilize resources from his farming business to achieve his dreams for the people.
“I have always wanted to help my people in any way I can. I was working with the state owned construction company here in Jalingo and even then, I was always reaching out to my people. That is how they mobilized that I should represent them. Since then I feel even more obliged to do more for them.
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“Realizing that what accrues from my position is simply not enough to meet the expectation of my people and my vision, I intensifies my farming business to generate more resources. From that, I have been able to acquire these six motorcycles for some of my constituents.
“I also use my experience working with the construction company and my contacts there to help fix some of the roads around here. We have been able to mobilize local labour to fix several roads, build covets and small Bridges. This has helped to ease movement of farm produce from their farms to the markets and homes.
“For some time, my people in Mebonyuu were having crisis with their Neighboring community from Zing local government area. What I did was to mobilize and construct the bridge along Tagalan Zing Mabang road, linking the two communities that were having issues. That has brought an end to the crisis because they both appreciate such good gesture”.
Mr Zephanial Voto, the Councilor representing Pantisawa B. Ward in the local government told our correspondent that “Honorable Markus has demonstrated uncommon zeal for service to his people and has become a beacon for most of the other elected officials in the area”.
Our correspondent reports that the Councilor, working with the locals have fixed several roads using local resources and some tractors from the state owned construction company where he worked before going into politics.
