By James Isaac
As the battle for who occupy Government House, Edo State gears up, with various interest to satisfy and numerous Political Parties scrambling for the pie.
The Senator who is representing Edo South and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Neda Imasuen has posited that it is time for the major Parties to give way for fresh ideas on how to serve the people to thrive.
The chieftain of the Labour Party(LP) stated this on Thursday,when he played host to some selected journalists in his office at the National Assembly.
According to him, the PDP and APC who have ruled the state in the past have left in their trail nothing but hardship, hunger, regrets.
As such he called on all and sundry to support the LP to produce the next occupier of Edo Government House come September 2024, who will render service and development to the people of Edo State.
“We know how much a bag of rice costs today, beans and garri are not even affordable. In my state people are selling yams, not in tubers any more but in slices, that’s the depth of hardship in the state being instigated by these political parties.
“So to begin to perpetuate the government in power who seems not to have solutions to these problems, and we see ourselves going deep into this whole on a daily basis, then we must have something up our sleeves.
“There is no adequate healthcare, the schools are all breaking down, we don’t have enough teachers, and when we do have them, they are not even qualified to teach. Our roads are nothing to write home about.
“Most of my constituents are in the rural areas, and they are farmers. Today many of them, I mean over 70% of them can no longer go to the farm because of fear of banditry.
“So am I satisfied? No! But we are hoping that with legislation, and by the grace of God, the tide will turn around”, he stated.
