ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi
Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, has lamented the level of underdevelopment in the state since it was created in 1976 pointing that the state is lagging far behind in terms of infrastructural development compared with its contemporaries.
He added that even states that were created many years after Bauchi including Gombe which was carved out of the state, have all gone far ahead of the state in terms of development stressing that the massive urban development his administration embarked upon was in order to turn around the fortunes of the state.
He said that he will focus on changing the old narrative of poverty, underdevelopment and unemployment in the state by so doing, the former Chief Executives of the state will be forced to bury their faces in shame.
The governor stated this while speaking at the flag-off of the construction of four roads by the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus and Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Wednesday in Bauchi.
NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the roads to be constructed are the dualization from Giwo Science Academy – Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport (17.7kms) and the dualization of Awala Roundabout – Bauchi State University (7kms), all federal roads were flagged-off by Secondus.
The other projects are the dualization of Sam Njoma Road from Dogon Yaro – Zaranda Hotel (1.95kms) and the Reconstruction of Adamu Jumba Road from Mobil Filing Station – Fire Service Junction were flagge-off by Governor Tambuwal.
Mohammed said that he is not in a hurry to probe former administrations in the state especially his predecessor, Mohammed Abubakar.
He stated that his predecessors will be buried politically because of the legacies he will leave behind at the end of his administration.
He said: “People have been asking me where I have been getting the money with which I am executing projects, there is a lot of resources in government coffers and in government treasury.
“The only thing that we are doing is the judicious use of this money and to make sure that this money is not being carried away by selfishness.
“There have been a lot a agitations for me to start probing the last administrations but I know government is a dynamic process.
“What I will do is to work and work with little resources for people to see and probe them and for them to know that definitely, somehow, there was a problem.
“These monies were being taken somewhere and they will be ashamed and they will be buried politically because they have shot themselves on the foot and their conscience,” he stated.
The governor added that: “The evidence of what we are doing will definitely put them to shame and to probity and accountability, but certainly, what we are doing is not a miracle and the monies we would have used the same way is what we are using and we are improving our IGR and we are blocking the leakages.”
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