Sunday Steve Karimi is a Nigerian

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and senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District,

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. Karimi is the Chairman of the Committee on Senate Services. From 2011 to 2019, Karimi was the member representing Yagba East/Yagba West/Mopamuro constituency in the

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. In October 2023, Karimi explained in an interview with

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that the Senate needed to buy imported Sport Utility Vehicles for its 109 members because "Most of our roads are terribly bad." When challenged by interviewer Seun Okinbaloye, he defended his position by saying, "Somebody that is a minister has more than three Land Cruisers,

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, and other vehicles, and you are not asking them questions; why us?"

Early life and education

He was born in Egbe, Yagba West Local Government, Kogi State. He studied Production Engineering at Kwara State College of Technology,

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, Kwara State, where he bagged a distinction in 1979. He received training at the famous

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, Egbe, which was established by the

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(SIM), and later became a key player in Nigeria’s water resources sector.

Political life

In a keenly contested primary election, Karimi rode on the support of incumbent governor

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to clinch the ticket of the

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where he emerged as the party's flagbearer in the 2023 senatorial elections in Kogi state after defeating the sitting Senator Smart Adeyemi of the same political party. He proceeded to contest in the general elections where he defeated his closest rival, Tajudeen Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to emerge as the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District Sunday Karimi once cautioned

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on the floor of the Senate, to do as he preaches when admonishing other leaders. Particularly on issues related to security, as leaders are expected to lead from the front

Bills and motions sponsored

Sunday Karimi has sponsored several bills and moved motions both in the house of representatives and in the senate. One of such is a bill seeking to bar the governor and deputy governors of the

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(CBN) from participating in politics which passed second reading at the Senate in 2023.

Community development

As part of efforts to address the rising insecurity in Kogi West senatorial district of

, Senator Sunday Karimi has constructed and handed over a fully furnished and equipped military base to the

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authorities. The military base is located in the outskirts of

Egbe Ẹgbẹ Mẹkun, popularly called Ẹgbẹ, is a historic town located in the Yagba West local government area of Kogi State, Nigeria, West Africa. History This town is an ancient town bordering Kogi and Kwara States. It is surrounded by so ...

Yagba West Yagba West is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria, in the west of the state adjoining Kwara State. Its headquarters is in the town of Odo Ere. It has an area of 1,276 km and a population of 149,023 at the 2006 census. By 2016, the ...

local government area of the State. Sunday Karimi, facilitated the construction of New 75 Number solar-powered boreholes and the rehabilitation of another 60 Number moribund Water Schemes across communities in Kogi West. The project, valued at the cost of N1.24 billion.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karimi, Sunday Living people People from Kogi State Place of birth missing (living people) All Progressives Congress members of the House of Representatives (Nigeria) 1962 births Members of the 7th National Assembly (Nigeria) Members of the 8th National Assembly (Nigeria) Senators of the 10th National Assembly (Nigeria)