*Photo: Governor Mai Mala Buni*
Yobe state Governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni CON, has commended the people of the state, especially the youth for appreciating calls against the protest as the state is emerging out of a protracted security challenge.
This was contained in a press statement by Mamman Mohammed, Director General, Press and Media Affairs to the Governor.
Governor Buni said “l am happy we are working on the same page, we clearly understand our situation, the state is just picking its pieces and we can not afford to accomodate anything including protest to draw us backwards.
“The good people of Yobe and especially our vibrant youth have shown great love, concern and patriotism to the state by adhering to calls aginst joining the protest.”
The governor assured that the state government would expand its policies and programmes to promote economic recovery and growth, and to accomodate large coverage of beneficiaries.
“We recently launched the massive agricultural empowerment programme to enhance agricultural production, ensure food sufficiency and security in the state.
“As you are aware 20 farmers from each of the 178 political wards are benefitting from the empowerment programme, this is in addition to the employments government offered to our youths in all the political wards” he added.
Buni assured that government would ensure Yobe state becomes a role model in both rain-fed and irrigation agricultural production.
He further assured that, with such understandings, government would continue to execute more people-oriented policies and programmes to improve the lives of the people.
The ministers and legislators should stop hijacking and awarding contracts meant for Nigerian contractors and consultants to their foreign and local collaborators. They should allow due process for all contracts in Nigeria and criminalise corruption in contract awards.
Nigerian contractors and consultants have been pushed to the wall and economically sidelined by the staff of MDAs, ministers and legislators. They have not been allowed to displayed what their counterparts in other part of the world like Chian, US, UK, Germany and other parts of the world take for granted due to corruption.
This is badly affecting job availability for Nigerian youths when engaged staff of MDAs and the legislators are busy stealing and awarding contracts to themselves and their relatives.
President Ahmed Tinubu should urgently do something about this else the system would collapse.