I Pay 600 People Monthly Stipends Because I Can’t Provide Jobs For Everybody – Adeyemi

The member representing Kogi West district in the National Assembly, Senator Smart Adeyemi has revealed that he has hundreds of people from his constituency on his payroll.Information Guide Nigeria

According to Channels Television, Senator Smart Adeyemi said this while responding to a question, during a special programme – Open Square that aired on Channels Television on Saturday.

Senator Smart Adeyemi said, “I am not in doubt that to a very large extent, my constituents are happy with me.”

“It will be wrong of me to say I have 100 per cent support. In this era of social media, a good percentage of people have access to you.

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“On a daily basis, there is none of us who will not receive up to 500 text messages and request but notwithstanding, I have a secretariat office in Kabba. It might interest you that I have up to 600 people I pay stipends on a monthly basis because I can’t provide jobs for everybody. I have some of them on my payroll.”

Channels Television reports that Smart Adeyemi asked his constituents to go to the secretariat office in Kabba, the headquarters of his senatorial district for issues that require his legislative intervention.

Speaking further on the limitations of a lawmaker as it relates to developmental projects, Senator Adeyemi said, “Talking about us going out of our purview; if you’re campaigning and people make a request that you construct roads … we are to complement the government,” he explained.

“Legislators do not have executive powers.

“If I pledge to construct a hospital or health centres and my state government is already doing that, I have to divert and do something else.Jamb Result

“So, we need to understand the roles of the legislators, we are not to compete with the executive because the resources are in their hands; we just receive peanuts to maintain ourselves and our constituents.

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