Good day Mbaduku,
It is no longer news that we have established what we call: Mbaduku Diaspora Commission in the last 4 years and counting.
Just to clarify. We define diaspora as anyone outside the geographical region Mbaduku Tiev. From this definition, even if you are based next door in Chi-Mbagbera or Adamgbe in Mbayongo or Obudu town as a Mbaduku citizen, you are diaspora.
From research, diaspora remittance inflows to Nigeria reached an estimated $21.8 billion to $23 billion in 2025 alone. Similarly, we in Mbaduku try to see how diaspora remittances overseas and within to Mbaduku will improve.
A good example of Mbaduku diaspora remittance is what we call: 100 for 100 Mbaduku Education sponsorship where Mbaduku citizens in diaspora choose an indigent student to pay their tuition for ALL 6 years. All 6 years because we do not want ‘failed promises’. And also because the would-be sponsor could fall on hard times. God forbid as we say in Nigeria.
I do not want to mention names here but Mbaduku citizens come home from Abuja, Lagos, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Canada 🇨🇦, USA 🇺🇸 and UK 🇬🇧 etc etc to pick 1 child, 2 kids, 4 kids, 5 kids, 10 kids and so on. This sponsorship scheme has been on for 6 years running.
Another good example is MDA Karu, Lagos, Makurdi and Katsina Ala branches etc coming home as a group to pickup and pay the fees of a child or children.
For instance, when I told Mbaduku diaspora in America 🇺🇸 during one of our overseas diaspora engagements that the fees for the entire 6 years of education in Mbaduku Community Secondary School, Tsar (MCSST) is 108,000, they screamed. This is less than $100 per child. This made a few key in by picking a good number of kids. They usually pay in full. A few agree in a payment plan.
Mbaduku diaspora remittances extends to families sending home farm inputs including fertilizers, seedlings and food items. In the past, food was sent from villages to loved ones in cities. But it is sad that food is now sent from towns or cities to villages due to the hardships we are all experiencing.
While in Lagos, I held a diaspora meeting with Mbaduku citizens in Lagos. While in Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 I did same. I have held more than 2-4 meetings with Mbaduku diaspora in America. These engagements are yielding fruits and tangible benefits back in Mbaduku GRACELAND. The efforts to create awareness is in and of itself a great achievement.
As I write this message, September 27, 2026, I am in Washington DC on official trip. But I never, God helping me, miss an opportunity to organize a virtual meeting by the sidelines in the evening to create more awareness and sensitize Mbaduku Citizens in America.
Knowledge they say is power. And information, they say, is key to making informed decisions and choices. If you know, you know!
This is also my Thank You Tour of some sort! As I wind down as presiding Officer of Mbaduku Tiev development association come December 2026, I am using this opportunity to say farewell and thank you to Mbaduku citizens and also implement a well tailored leadership succession planning process.
All I can say is: Shange la Mwem is working in Mbaduku! Keep it up, Mbaduku. Am proud of our collective achievements as a people.
God bless MDA! God bless Mbaduku!!