A lecturer with the Department of Information and Management Technology of the Moddibo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH) Yola, Malam Musa Jalo, says Governor Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa state is preforming below expectations in meeting the immediate needs of the people of the state.
Jalo revealed that the on-going rapid development of roads in some parts of the state “is nothing more than a mere misplaced of priorities to people’s needs”.
He added: “For you to enjoy a good road, you have to have something in your tummy and you have to be healthy. You can’t be starving or on a sick bed and honour a new road.
“The point I want to make here is that there are basic important factors to be considered before dwelling to road constructions or rehabilitation.
“The welfare of your people should be paramount. Pay them their salaries and entitlements. Give special attention to the health sector. I was at the Adamawa Specialist Hospital last week. The hospital is in comatose; dilapidated structures, no drugs, health workers just lolling around, and there was a heavy traffic of patients. With this condition, you’re working on roads, who are going to enjoy the roads? Dead people?
“With regards to the so-called road construction, Bindow is only focusing on three local governments, which are Yola North, Yola South and Mubi South.
“What the citizens should put into consideration is if the government will take nearly two years to complete just three LGAs, what will happen to the 18 LGAs? Will he fix them in twoyears? No! So also if you analyse how he does, there’s amisplaces priority, example; how can you ignore Yolde-Pate road which is completely un-motorable and dwell on roads that are manageable some without even a pothole? How can you ignore places like Sami-naka which houses are submerged in flood whenever it rained, look at Lelewalji, and others. There about 1001 roads in Yola North and South that need more attention. So the government has a misplaced priority,” he said
Musa, who said that he was only talking as an ordinary concerned resident of the state, said he and many people voted the governor in all confidence and trust him to work for the people of Adamawa State.
Asked if he was aware of the economic crunch affecting the country, resulting to non-payment of salaries by some governors in the country and as such Bindow is trying so well in the paying of salaries compare with his counterparts, Jalo stated: “If I told he has an agenda on roads constructions the governor should have prioritised the roads constructions in these three councils.
“The roads he is constructing are mostly manageable. Let him go to places like Saminaka in Yola North where if there is a little downpour, rain waters will submerge the area. As I said sick people in hospital beds cannot use the roads he is doing, people with empty stomach will not be happy walking on beautiful roads while hungry. I still maintain that most needs of the people is in the health sector.
“No matter what, Bindow has no excuse not to work. There are other states that are relatively doing well; he may wish to take a lesson from them.”
But in a reaction, an ardent supporter of the Bindow administration, Mallam Mohammed Mayas, said: “During Bindow’s campaign he entered into social agreements to work for the people and he knows exactly what they want. So nobody can tell Bindow what to do. Besides the people whose roads are being constructed are not complaining. Rather, they are praising the governor.”
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