{"id":55749,"date":"2022-01-26T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=55749"},"modified":"2022-01-30T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:52:12","slug":"alimosho-lagos-communities-urged-to-engage-with-duty-bearers-for-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/alimosho-lagos-communities-urged-to-engage-with-duty-bearers-for-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Alimosho-Lagos Communities Urged To Engage With Duty Bearers For Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Community leaders have been asked to engage with duty bearers and monitor activities to ensure development in their various localities.<\/p>\n

The call was made yesterday in Alimosho, Lagos State by Mr. Ayo Aluko-Olokun who was a facilitator at the workshop titled \u2018Rights based approach Advocacy Training For Community Stakeholders\u2019 Engagement with duty bears on priority development issues\u2019.<\/p>\n

The program supported by the British Council through funding by the European Union was implemented by \u00a0Lagos based NGO, International Press Centre (IPC) to enable community stakeholders know how to engage with duty bearers on development issues.<\/p>\n

According to Aluko-Olokun, members of the communities must know the duties of their various duty bearers because if they are ignorant of such, there would be no development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must know our councilors for instance, they are the closest to the communities. We must demand to have their telephone numbers,\u201d Aluko-Olokun.<\/p>\n

He also mentioned why some councilors don\u2019t give their numbers to members of their communities. \u201cA lot of the councilors don\u2019t want their numbers known because of what our people will be asking. The people would be calling for unreasonable things and that is why these local government officials often want to hide,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is rare to find councilors reside outside the communities where they serve; most of them live within their communities. Their constituents who should go to them should be people who have interest. A lot of people do not have interest, they only want personal benefits,\u201d he said, enjoining community leaders to learn how to engage their duty bearers.<\/p>\n

Aluko-Olokun also enlightened the participants about participating in budget planning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is what they call \u2018public hearing\u2019 when they want to plan the annual budget. They always paste the notice in the local government offices.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are that citizen that has interest, you will go there and ask questions when the public hearing would take place, you will be there and you will make your input, you must be attentive to these little things,\u201d he said<\/p>

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Participants were also enjoined to make use of the social media in engaging their duty bearers. \u201cAnother tool you can use in engaging them is the social media. Now that twitter is back, tag them, sometimes you don\u2019t need anybody, create a social media account for your community, tag your duty bearers and they would read your concerns,\u201d Aluko-Olokun said.<\/p>\n

Program Officer for IPC on the project, Abiodun Adeleke at the event also tasked the participants drawn from Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State to keep asking questions from the duty bearers who would perform if properly engaged.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to ask our councilors what project they have facilitated in the community where they serve. We are always laid back and that is what politicians like, we need to engage them skillfully.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we do, they will perform their duties. This program has brought about results in some communities, there have been results and testimonies but this won\u2019t happen if we don\u2019t ask questions. If we don\u2019t engage with our duty bearers on issues, nothing will be done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Participants from Ayobo area of Alimosho complained about the burial ground located in their community. According to them, the Local Government owns the burial ground and they need it to be fenced.<\/p>\n

Pa Emmanuel Awodiya is a community leader in the vicinity who said, \u201cThe community had complained severally without response from the government. Many prospective tenants on seeing the unfenced burial ground, leave for other communities and won\u2019t want to rent our property.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government should come to fence this burial ground before ritualists take advantage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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