{"id":3057,"date":"2022-04-30T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2023-06-10T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T10:13:54","slug":"i-have-600-constituents-on-my-payroll-smart-adeyemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/i-have-600-constituents-on-my-payroll-smart-adeyemi\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have 600 Constituents on My Payroll &#8211; Smart Adeyemi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The lawmaker representing Kogi West district in the National Assembly, <a href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/2022\/04\/17\/500-kogi-students-benefit-from-smart-adeyemis-scholarships\/\">Senator Smart Adeyemi<\/a>, says he has hundreds of people from his constituency on his payroll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He stated this in response to a question during a special programme \u2013 Open Square that aired on Channels Television on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In his reaction to the remarks by a resident of Kogi who decried the underperformance of some legislators in the state, Senator Adeyemi explained that there was no way he could get all his constituents employed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cI am not in doubt that to a very large extent, my constituents are happy with me,\u201d he said during the town hall between lawmakers and the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cIt 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cOn 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/2022\/02\/09\/kogi-news-senate-approves-establishment-of-kabba-law-school\/\">Kabba<\/a>. It might interest you that I have up to 600 people I pay stipends on a monthly basis because I can\u2019t provide jobs for everybody. I have some of them on my payroll.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Peanuts For Upkeep<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The lawmaker asked his constituents to go to the secretariat office in Kabba, the headquarters of his senatorial district for issues that require his legislative intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He highlighted some of such functions, including lawmaking and constituency projects, as well as carrying out legislative duties to ensure the delivery of the dividend of democracy to their constituents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Senator Adeyemi, however, stated the limitations of a lawmaker as it relates to developmental projects, saying they cannot go into a competition with the executive arm of government in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cTalking about us going out of our purview; if you\u2019re campaigning and people make a request that you construct roads \u2026 we are to complement the government,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cLegislators do not have executive powers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cIf 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cSo, 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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lawmaker representing Kogi West district in the National Assembly, Senator Smart Adeyemi, says he has hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-3057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kogi","8":"tag-smart-adeyemi"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Have 600 Constituents on My Payroll - Smart Adeyemi - Ebira Reporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The lawmaker representing Kogi West district in the National Assembly, Senator Smart Adeyemi, says he has hundreds of people from his\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/i-have-600-constituents-on-my-payroll-smart-adeyemi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I Have 600 Constituents on My Payroll - Smart Adeyemi - Ebira Reporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The lawmaker representing Kogi West district in the National Assembly, Senator Smart Adeyemi, says he has hundreds of people from his\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/i-have-600-constituents-on-my-payroll-smart-adeyemi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ebira Reporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-30T13:42:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-10T10:13:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ebirareporters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ebirareporters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/i-have-600-constituents-on-my-payroll-smart-adeyemi\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/i-have-600-constituents-on-my-payroll-smart-adeyemi\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7e2919de185342f413c196898786669\"},\"headline\":\"I Have 600 Constituents on My Payroll &#8211; 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