THE QUEST FOR BARUTEN POLITICAL FREEDOM

                 GINA WEEKEND COLUMN,
BY:
HABIBU GENTE
DATE:  Saturday, 3  June , 2017
             
While Kwara State is rotting away from underdevelopment and lack of youth empowerment, Baruten local government is devastating politically and deprived from equal political participation, educational opportunities and equal privileges related to public offices in the State. Baruten was for a very long time ago subjugated by the State policies, that one could not help but think they are isolated from Kwara State or from Nigeria as a country. I used to think as i was growing up in the mix of valley of segregation and storm of inequality of political privileges that clouded over Kwara State politics, that do we have representatives?, or are we so sidelined in Kwara State that we couldn't have the  national rights access to the monthly allocation allotted to every local governments of the country?. As an innocent child these are questions I do ask my pure and confused mind often,  to which I could not get satisfied answers,  nor was I able to make sense out of the lingering questions about Baruten abandonment. Until I came into age and maturing on how politics work in this country.
       Of course this degeneration of Baruten Local government, isn't only one way traffic of blame. Our politicians supposedly representing the locality are they themselves the most clueless leaders that ever walk in the corridor of power. Their insensitivity and myopia political planes and ideas are obviously apparent in the lack of basic necessities for decent living of their people;  unapologetic disconnection from information about the State and country's politics, lack of any recognize higher institutions( like NCE,  UNIVERSITY OR TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE),  lack of electricity connection, lack or no communities boreholes, dilapidated public schools etc.
   The following are some of basics things Baruten needs for its political emancipation and development;
1.   Effective information;  No nation and people could survive from political manipulation instinct by their oppressors without effect and independent communication miss like Radios stations, Tv Stations and other effective miss of passing information. Baruten is in dare  need of Standard Radios and Tv Stations that can communicate with the people and update them about their country's politics and news with the language they understand. If this could be done in one year Baruten people will free themselves from the age-long subjugation.
2.    Establishment of higher institutions;  The root of every development of any people and nation is good background of education programs. How could a nation achieve that,  is by nurturing of public schools which is the foundation of education, and then establishment of NCEs,  Universities and Technical institutes. All these are lacking in Baruten local government area. Save only the crying private affiliated institutions which themselves are not sufficient to cover the whole locality. Baruten need standard training institutions and not affiliated ones that do not guarantee effective learning.  And often times sought to kills the morals of youths engagement in academic excellence thus, patently produced half-baked graduates and 'no-go better school students'.
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