Sokoto lawmaker donates health centre to community, reaffirms commitment to grassroot development
A federal lawmaker from Sokoto state, Alhaji Umar Yusuf Yabo, has completed and donated a primary healthcare centre to Donu community.
The member who is representing Yabo Shagari federal constituency paid an inspection visit to site of the renovated centre, describing it as a big step in his sustained drive to improve access to quality healthcare and social infrastructure across the constituency.
The visit, which attracted community leaders, health workers, and residents of Donu, provided the lawmaker with the opportunity to assess the standard of work delivered at the facility and interact directly with beneficiaries.
He expressed satisfaction with the quality of the renovation and reiterated that functional primary healthcare centres remain central to reducing maternal and infant mortality, improving disease prevention, and bringing essential medical services closer to the people.
He emphasized that the Donu Primary Healthcare Centre is part of a broader, people-oriented intervention aimed at strengthening grassroots healthcare delivery, particularly in rural communities that have long suffered neglect.
According to him, the health and wellbeing of constituents remained a top legislative and moral responsibility.
He reiterated that aside the Primary Healthcare Centre, his stewardship deployed massive investments in the education sector, with the construction and completion of classroom blocks across Yabo and Shagari Federal Constituency.
These include a block of six classrooms at Daringuru Primary School, blocks of three classrooms at Bulayaki Primary School, Dalijan Village, ICAS Primary School Yabo, and Ruggadu Primary School, as well as blocks of two classrooms at Chofal Primary School, Kambama Islamiyya School, Lambara Islamiyya School, and Ruggar Kijo Islamiyya School.
“These interventions are aimed at decongesting classrooms, improving learning environments, and boosting school enrolment, especially at the basic education level,” he said.
In the area of religious and community development, Umar Yabo said he has facilitated the construction of Ruggar Kijo Jumu’at Mosque, Lambara Jumu’at Mosque, Kambama Jumu’at Mosque, and Doruwa Jumu’at Mosque, reinforcing social cohesion and supporting the spiritual needs of the people.
