Agency Reporter
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Gombe State Mallam Dahiru Hassan Kera has said there is nothing for the Inuwa Yahaya led administration to celebrate adding that the state has been dragged backwards.
Kera, who was a former Special Assistant on media and publicity to former Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen.
He said, “People are the judges themselves, you can find out from residents of the state many of them are not happy with the way things are going on in the state. There is no governor that will talk about development and still frustrate tertiary institutions just because they were established by his predecessor, as we talk one of the five state owned institutions after the coming of this administration has not received salary except the for the management staff, while the remaining four institutions received salaries without overhead.
“If we place road construction side by side with education, there is no way a governor that claims to have no money to support tertiary institutions will be constructing rural roads at the instead of tertiary education.
“We have recently had the name of the state soiled in the eyes of the public. The poor handling of isolation centres, if the government is serious there is no way you will have problem with an isolation centre and they will allow for a subsequent protest by other patients in another centre without addressing their grievances.
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“We know that government is a continuous process, our government has successfully transformed the dreaded Kalare group through various straining and reorientation to Marshal so that they can be responsible citizens to both the state and their families. After reintegration and placement under salaries, all of a sudden this government just for political reason threw them out to the street that has invariably increased the rate of crime in the state which they can’t curtail. It was against this backdrop that the previous administration chose to absorb the youths and engaged them in meaningful ventures.
“There is so much noise about water supply but in actual sense, provision of supply has become worst this time than ever. Technically the dam was constructed to serve a particular population and there is no way water supply can be improved without dam expansion, but this government chose to tell lies that they have improved water supply how? The best thing to do should have been to increase the capacity and not to be mouthing reticulation which was already done by the Dankwambo administration. You can’t reticulate when you don’t have adequate water supply, instead they cut supplies from other areas to concentrate supply to the metropolitan city, and you can see how myopic they are thinking, just for people to say there is water.
“To us as a state we are disappointed they have moved the state backwards not forward. The state is managed as personal enterprise and I’m telling you, in the years to come PDP will take over to reposition the state to its glorious past.”
“Today, civil service has been relegated, government cannot appoint and deploy permanent secretaries, no promotion and some teachers are groaning over nonpayment of their salaries, this is not what we’ve bequeathed them. You can’t run a government blamestorming and attributing your utter incompetence to the previous administration.
“The recent law passed by the state assembly creating joint development project agency where the governor will the chairman which is akin to the abolished joint account is one of the outrages committed by the administration that will haunt as a state.”
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