By Abel Leonard
In his commitment towards industrializing the state, Nasarawa State Governor, Engr Abdullahi Sule has ones again assured the youths in the state of one hundred percent inclusion in his administration to enforce development in the state.
He stated this while playing host to youth groups and organizations at the Alh Aliyu Akwe Doma Banquet Hall Government House, Lafia, today.
Sule, said the state cannot develop without the input of the youths, adding that the youths are the bedrock of any development and that is why the economy structure of the state is being managed by vibrant youths.
“The State is interested in developing the youths. We will identify some of them based on merit,” the Governor said.
In response to teachers’ welfare, the Governor said it will soon be a thing of the past considering the fact that the state is struggling to pay teachers 100 percent of ther allowamces, hence there is a need for them to be patient with government for efforts are been made to soleve that problem.
On his part, Special Adviser to the Governor on Youth Affairs, Hon Kwanta Yakubu, said three months into the administration of the Governor, there was a revolution for youth empowerment which was launched as a fulcrum of the administration’s youth development agenda with the commencement of the Compressed Earth Bricks Making Project designed for artisanal Youth Cooperative groups.
“41 cooperatives of 250 youth (men and women) were selected across the 13 LGAs and 18 Development Areas and trained on compressed earth bricks making using laterithe that abound in our community.”
Earlier, the President of Eggon Youths Movement worldwide, Comr Daniel Yaro Anyuabaga, said Governor Sule had exhibited a good sense of responsibility in all ramifications of good governance just within his one year in office irrespective of tribe or religious.
“We have keenly observed your leadership in the state and we dare to say that, indeed, Nasarawa State people could not have made a better choice of a governor for a time like this.”
Comr Daniel Yaro applauded the Governor’s philosophy of completing projects of the predecessors, saying it is a high sense of maturity in governance as it will save the state from wastages that often attend abandoned projects.
The Eggon youths leader thanked the Governor for his efforts aimed at ensuring the security of lives and property in the state.
“We should hasten to appreciate the siting of the Mobile Police Training College in Ende Hills of Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area, the Air Force Special Base in Lafia and the headquarters of the Nigerian Army Special Forces Command, in Doma and the establishment of Military Super Camps at Kenyehu and Udege in Toto and and Nasarawa Local Government Areas.”
Other groups however called on the State Governor to look into the plight of teachers in the state, thanking the governor for being youth friendly, considering the number of youths appointed into various positions in his administration even as they requested for more youth engagement in terms of employment.
However, the State Commissioner for Sport and Youth Development, Bala Othman, appreciated the youths in the state for felicitating with the government of the state and called on them to be law abiding citizens.
