Bamigbetan Flags off Community Centre in Ejigbo
Mary Ekah
The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan recently flagged off a community centre at the Bungalow area of Jakande Estate in Ejigbo. The centre is to serve as a flagship project for forthcoming projects aimed at developing the estate and restoring it lost glory.
In his address, the Chairman, Bungalow Community, Jakande Estate, Ejigbo, Lagos, Deacon Peter Taiye Adediji said that by the inaugurating of the project, the association has laid a solid foundation for the development of the community.
The inauguration of Bungalow Community Centre, which also witnessed an award ceremony witnessed by handful of community members and other guests.
The project which started two years ago, Adediji said from the onset had a 7-point agenda under the caption, ‘That The Bungalow May Glow Again’, which was presented at the group’s inaugural session on August 22, 2015.
The 7-point agenda for implementation, he said included unity among people in the Bungalow community as well as celebrate and honour achievers in their midst and regularly arrange programmes that will bind them together. It also entailed fostering environmental friendly projects such as promoting clean environment, check-mate hawkers, provide street lights and encourage planting of flowers; security of lives and property by providing day and night guards and possibly have police patrol within the estate and improve electricity supply and have regular dialogue on how to have more power supply to the community amongst others.
Having put all the plans on ground, the association was for over one year financially incapacitated to execute its plans. “We made effort by writing letters soliciting for funds but that amounted to spending the little amount some individual members could spare to run the secretariat. Running the secretariat without funds became difficult. We, the executive, went into the cooler for paucity of funds, but the God given vision was burning in me,” Adediji recalled.
It was in the middle of this challenge that the Chairman, Bungalow Community, Deacon Adediji decided to take up the leadership risk to commence the laying of the foundation of the hall through self-financing last year, believing that other like-minded fellows would join when they see the progress of work.
But this was never to be; rather, “words came to me that people were insinuating that why starting the project when he knew he could not finish it, and such other discouraging statements. I was now in a dilemma asking myself how I would be able to solely shoulder the finance of this community project. I have to give God all the glory because it looks impossible but with God I was able to finance and get it done.”