2019: Manwe secures job for over 500 youths in Taraba

…Urges electorates to vote for PDP

Okerafor Athanatius, Jalingo

Hon. Jerry Manwe, Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dogara Yakubu has secured employment opportunities to over 500 Taraba Youths who are gainfully employed in different fields of endeavour. Manwe, who was former member of the House of Representatives for Karim Lamido, Lau and Ardo-Kola Federal Constituency, stated this yesterday while fielding questions from Journalists in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. The Legislator was reacting to a question on the number of Bills or Motion he sponsored at the National Assembly. His words, “The question I expected from you should be the number of people I was able to lift up, the people I empowered, those that benefited from my representation at the National Assembly”, “For the Bills and Motions, I can’t even count them but for the lives of people I have empowered”. “It was not only in Karim that I empowered people but all over the State. Even recently, I was able to recruit some people from Jalingo. So, I have recruited close to about 500 young men who are gainfully employed either in Civil Defence, Immigration, Prison Service and other Sectors in various Federal Government Ministries, Boards and Agencies”, he said. Hon. Manwe said, in the course of representing his people, he constructed so many Bore holes for equitable Water Supply for the people from his Constituency. He said, there is no Constituency that he represented that he didn’t execute one or two Projects. While calling on the good people of the State to come out en-masse and vote peacefully, Hon Manwe however asked them to vote for all PDP Candidates both at the Federal and State level. According to him, nothing is happening at the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) both at the National and State level. President Muhammadu Buhari is not working; the government is being run by just two or three people. Jerry Manwe reiterated that President Muhammadu Buhari is a good person but he is surrounded by Cabals. “As far as I am concerned, we will ensure that a more agile person takes over from him”, said Manwe. On the performance of Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku for the past four years, whether he demands re-election, Hon. Manwe said, based on the resources available in the State, it will be very difficult for you to notice whatever development as first time Governor would have put in place. “There may be changes when he is elected for the second time”. “What I am saying is that, Four years is not enough, it is not adequate for a Governor who has just come in to put up something”. “But I am sure that he must have done a lot of things but I am saying that as far as I am concerned, there are areas he has performed creditably and there are areas that need improvement”.