The issues of our environment and the safety of our traders in our markets are serious issues of concern to me and my party. We went to the market to thank our people for their votes and found our people trading in the streets. We asked them why this new development which we observed after the elections? They gladly told us that it was a concession giving to them by ACN for voting for their candidate. I am glad that the Comrade Governor addressed this issue by drawing the attention of the environmental ministry to it and showing their meeting in the evening news.

@ Manix Coker, my brother I am right there with you. You will notice that four months to the elections there were no kidnappings and robbery. A simple explanation is that the youths were fully engaged not employed. Now that elections are over, how do will engage them? We can do this in several and very RAPID ways. (1) Although Comrade Adams started it initially but they lack the creativity that is required to make it a success. That is the issuance of Edo State residences Identification cards. In the process of issuing out these cards, at a fee of course, the unemployed will be identified with their qualifications etc. The next step to to organise a training program for them into different business areas. We should create as many markets as possible. We can have a computer village, a GSM village, Agriculture seedlings village, a motor parts village and of course a tokunbo household items village. We should also encourage those that want to go into farming to do so. As a matter of priority those who want to join in the reforestation by planting rubber, tick and palm trees will be paid double the salaries of the others. The hoteliers should be encouraged to form a cooperative to market Bini City and Edo state to the rest of the country. As you will all observer during the last elections all elections related activities were all centred at the Homeville Best Western hotels in Etete. That is as a result of marketing. We can use our creativity to get our people engaged.

Wahala do start for Benin City as Oba Market, New Benin market and Ekiosa market women are now trading on the streets adjacent to their market. As at today the Oba Market, New Lagos, Upper Missions and Third East Circular roads have all been taken over by the traders. When ask why are they selling on the streets in violation of the laws of the land. They said they were offered the opportunity to sell on the street by the ACN in lieu of their votes in the last governorship elections. Na wao wonders will never end.

Let us reclaim our destiny. About three weeks ago I got some inquiry from a foreign firm about the possibility of buying rubber from Nigeria. After a careful search I found only two rubber factories still functioning in Benin City and Edo State. They are Odia Rubber Factory in Benin and Paulosa Rubber Factory in Ologbo. The problem is that with the kind of volume the firm is willing to buy these two companies working around the clock can not meet the demand. Also there are no more rubber trees in the forest and rubber tappers are no more there. In this age of unemployment, I think Comrade Adams should make planting of rubber trees a state policy so that in the nearest future we can claim back our prominent position in the industry.

Great people of Edo State I wish to whole heartedly congratulate you all for the peaceful elections of July 14^th, 2012. You spoke loud and clear with your votes that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole should continue to rule our state for the next four years. I congratulate him. The elections have come and gone, and all the candidates are sending their congratulatory messages to the Comrade. However, I wish to state that there are so many irregularities in the votes presented to the INEC headquarters on the night of the 14^th of July 2012, where Mr. Theo Oronsaye and my good self stood in for our party ANPP as returning officers. We discovered a lot of discrepancy in results that came into INEC and the ones recorded in the field. For example from results collated in Orhionmwion, ANPP scored 1360 votes but the result sent to INEC said we got 277. There are so many others errors like that. It looks like the results were writing way before the elections. Secondly, our agents were denied participation in Ovia North East, Orhionmwion Local government and many others. Could this be the lastest form of Rigging? Is this the all new space-age-scientific-rigging that they have long talk about?   Again, congratulations to all and Comrade Adams.