Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Sunday assured the people of the state of his determination to make the state the centre of super excellence.
The governor, who spoke through Director-General on Media and Publicity, Evangelist Kingsley Fanwo, after the New Year service at the Living Word Zonal Headquarters of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Ilorin, said the governor was “God-sent to liberate the state from the shackles of underdevelopment, division and oppression.”
A statement made available to Nigerian Tribune in Lokoja, said “For many years, Kogi was held down by the satanic forces that promoted underdevelopment, ethnic chauvinism and blinding corruption. The emergence of Governor Yahaya Bello is to destroy the cog in the wheels of our progress.
“The governor has started well and will reposition the state with his 2017 Budget of New Direction which has played up the need to concentrate on capital projects that will catalyze the economy of the state.”
Fanwo urged the people of the state that are resident in Kwara State to invest back home as the government was opening up the economy of the state for competitiveness and opportunities.
He said Kogi would become the agricultural capital of Nigeria in the next four years.
The governor’s said, “Governor Yahaya Bello is working with a focus. First, he has been able to ensure a credible payroll system for the civil service. We now know the real civil servants on our payrolls as names of ghost workers and unintended beneficiaries have been removed from the payrolls. This is critical to the public service reforms of the New Direction Agenda.
“Moving forward, right-sizing the civil service is inevitable. We can’t continue to pretend it is the government who should lead our economic renaissance. Modern economies are private sector-driven. Kogi cannot be an exception. The government of Yahaya Bello will strive to reduce recurrent expenditure to the barest minimum while emphasis will be placed on infrastructural facelift to grow the economy.”
According to him, the civil service reforms agenda would be pursued to “a desired conclusion” in order to “build a state in which the wealth of the people is the wealth of the state.”
He said on its part, government has continued to grow the internally generated revenue to reduce the state’s overreliance on federal allocations.
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