SMK Thank you Visit: More of Moral Attitude than Being Politically Savvy
Bomba Dauda
The Senator representing the Southern Kaduna Senatorial zone, Sunday Marshall Katung (SMK), recently concluded his four-day tour of the geopolitical zone where he thanked the people for the mandate given to him at the 2023 polls to represent them.
The visit was more of a moral attitude than being politically savvy. Be it may, it is a new attitude and a new political benchmark in the politics of the people of the region. If this is a new scale to measure political attitude in the future, season and time will tell.
“In the history of our politics, no senator ever returned to say thank you for the support at the polls, this is the first of its kind as far as I know politics, SMK has introduced something unique, something new,” said, Kauru LG PDP Chairman, Hon. Machu Bulus Gwall. Across LGs, politicians, Christian clergies, Muslim mullahs, women leaders, and youth leaders have all attested to the above fact during the visit.
“I had promised you when I came here to campaign that, if elected or not, I will come back to thank you,” said the incumbent senator. “I thank you all, sincerely, for believing in me and giving me the senatorial mandate at the polls,” SMK added.
On 17th July 2023, SMK began the tour of the 8 local governments that constitutes Zone 3 (Southern Kaduna Senatorial District: Sanga, Jema’a, Kaura, Kachia, Jaba, Kagarko, Kaura, and Zango LGs) and thanked them for the confidence they reposed on him. In his address to the people, SMK routinely reminded the people of the zone that he will try as much as he can to keep the promises he made to them during his campaign tour.
Top on his priority list is security. He assured them that he will go the whole hog to ensure that he approaches the executives and the agencies responsible to secure the zone. In Sanga, he spoke benevolently: we are not going to shame you, we are going to keep our campaign promise.
In Jema’a LG, SMK told the enthusiastic audience who listened to him with rapt attention that, he will create a synergy between himself (the senator) and the members of the House of Representatives and State Assembly to pursue a common agenda for the zone, approach both the state and federal government to discuss the plight of the people of the zone.
After the thank you visit, SMK visited victims of the suspected diphtheria at the Intensive Care Unit of the Sir Ibrahim Yakowa Hospital kafanchan where he offered financial assistance (undisclosed amount) to enhance the treatment of the victims, mostly children between the ages of 2 and 6. Before the visit by SMK, community sources told Gurara Accord that 15 Children lost their lives from the disease while one child died at the ICU of the Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa hospital, Kafanchan at the time of compiling this report.
Having wrapped up the thank you visit, he resumed his legislative duties at the red chamber, SMK has swung into action, he raised a motion on the floor of the house on the diphtheria outbreak in Kafanchan and sponsored a bill on the establishment of a federal university in Southern Kaduna.
