A member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Abass Adigun, has personally funded the repair a dysfunctional borehole servicing policemen at the main police post at the entrance of the National Assembly and donated a new generator to power it.
Honourable Adigun, representing Ibadan North-East/Ibadan South-East Federal Constituency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), clarified that his intervention was not intended to embarrass the management of the National Assembly, but was a demonstration of his commitment to the improvement of security personnel’s welfare.
Adigun, who is a retiree from the United States Navy, had moved a motion of the floor of the House, calling for a conscious effort to be made to improve the wellbeing of security operatives so as to encourage them to do more in the war against terror.
The first-term lawmaker said he was pained to see policemen guarding the National Assembly trek a long distance to get water, adding that upon enquiry, he discovered that the borehole servicing them had stopped working.
His intervention led to the resuscitation of the borehole, the procurement of a new submersible pump to run it and a generator to power it as well as provide electricity for the police post which, he said, had been cut off from the main power supply to the National Assembly complex.
