Personality Profile: Hon. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, MHR; A Nigerian Politician from Ikorodu Federal Constituency:
By Araba, Olawale Enifenilanfe:
Quick Facts about Honorable,
Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria for Ikorodu constituency
early life, education and career is that Babajimi Adegoke Benson was born on 30
March 1972 in Ikorodu, Lagos State. He attended Lagos State University where he
obtained an LLB in 1994. He proceeded to the Nigerian Law School and obtained a
Bachelor of Law (Honors) in 1995. In 1999, he also earned an LLM in Comparative
International Business Law from London Guildhall University.
He subsequently pursued an
MBA at Warwick Business School in the UK and is a member of both the Nigerian
Bar Association and the International Bar Association.
His career started in 1989
after completing his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program. He was
appointed as a Legal Officer in the General Counsel Division at the United
Nations Headquarters in New York. He had also served as an in-house Legal
Counsel at Ecobank PLC from 2001 to 2003 and later as Deputy Manager (Legal) at
Lead Bank PLC from 2003 to 2004.
In 2007, he became a
Non-Executive Director at the Lekki Free Trade Zone, a position he held until
his appointment as the company secretary (Strategy, Legal & Corporate
Governance) of Lagos State Development and Property Corporation.
Babajimi began his
electoral political career in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives
Congress (APC). He has served on various committees, including Chairman of the
House Committee on Banking and Finance, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on
Habitat, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, and member
of Committees on Works, Justice, Housing, Environment, Treaties, and Protocol
in the Nigerian House of Representatives. Currently, he serves as the Chairman
of the House Committee on Defence and has introduced several bills and motions
aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of security agents in the fight
against insecurity. He sponsored the Nigerian Armed Forces Support Fund bill,
designed to improve the country's defence capabilities.
Babajimi voted and
advocated for women's inclusion in political and other leadership positions. As
a member of the House of Representatives Constitutional Review Committee during
the 8th Assembly in 2016, he voted for and supported the gender bills during
the constitutional amendments. He has sponsored several bills, including the
Good Samaritan Bill, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999
(Alteration) Bill, the Electric Power Sector Reform Act (Amendment) Bill, and
the National Icons, Symbols Legacy Agency Bill, among others. Additionally, he
initiated the motion to commemorate World Teachers Day and celebrate Nigerian
teachers, and submitted a petition before the House against the Accountant
General of the Federation for his refusal to pay salaries and pension arrears
of officers who retired from the Federal Civil Service between 2012 and 2020.
Babajimi Adegoke Benson has
implemented several projects in his constituency. Among these projects is the
iCare Food Bank initiative, launched to provide relief to the elderly, widows,
and other vulnerable groups during times of economic hardship. Additionally, he
set up IKD 106.1FM, a community radio in his Ikorodu constituency and also
contributed to improving access to healthcare in his constituency by donating
an 80-bed Mother and Child Hospital in Imota. These initiatives have impacted
the lives of his constituents and have contributed to the development of the
community.
He has been able to
successfully constructed more than 40 accessible road infrastructural developments,
both inner and major roads, provided transformers for some communities, back to
school project, ICT Centers, Scholarship to the interested tertiary students
both in UK and Nigeria universities, recently sent some group of people living
under his constituents on tourist China, and still doing his best to invest
more on humanity across his jurisdiction. In addition to these, over forty (40)
infrastructural road network project has also been established in his constistuency.
His impacts in Ikorodu
division has convinced the Obas, High Chiefs, Baales and community stakeholders
to conclusively agreed that he might
become the next Governor of Lagos State after His Excellency Babajide Olushola
Sanwoolu.
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