Niger State governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, says his administration will soon begin wards development projects across the 25 local government areas of the state.
The governor stated this during the stakeholders’ meeting of state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held at the Government House, Minna.
He added that the Ward Development Project initiative aimed at bringing government closer to the people will engender rapid growth and development, especially at the grassroots.
Bago explained that the committee to that effect will be set up to ensure successful implementation of the projects
He also stressed the need for the APC leadership in the state to organise town halls where stakeholders in the state will interact with the people to know their challenges with a view to addressing them.
On the issue of insecurity challenges in some parts of the state, Bago described the situation as worrisome, maintained that the government is not relenting on how to bring sanity into the state, just as he added that government is making efforts to address the situation squarely.
The governor however assured that security agents will go after the bandits and deal with them decisively, just as he called on the people of the state to cooperate with security agents by providing useful information that will help in curtailing banditry and other criminal activities.
Bago also encouraged the people of the state to key into his agricultural revolution of feeding the nation, stressing that the state government has invested in agriculture and it has started yielding results.
The Speaker, Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkin Daji, the APC national vice chairman, Alhaji Mu’azu Bawa Rijau and the acting, Niger State APC chairman, Aminu Musa Bobi, in their separate remarks, commended the achievements of the governor, especially in the area of infrastructural development, saying it has placed the state on the path of greatness.
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