#endbadgovernanceprotest: Wake Up Call To leadership.Says Governor Fintiri

#endbadgovernanceprotest: wake up call to leadership.Says Governor Fintiri

From Umar Dankano, Yola.

Adamawa state Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri says the ongoing #End Bad Governance protest as a “wake up call” to do the needful to those in positions of authority in the country.

Governor Fintiri made the disclosure during a statewide broadcast in Yola Sunday admitting that the ongoing protest is justifiable considering the hunger and hardship in the land noting that necessary actions must be taken by governments to tackle the challenges.

“Protest is a constitutional right of citizens and a wakeup-call to the government. We thank you most sincerely for this call to duty. For those who came out to protest, I thank you for doing so within the bounds of the law; for those who did not come out and indeed those who are in the majority, I thank you so much for sending your message louder than those who came out. There is so much we can achieve in an atmosphere of peace than we can in that one of rancour and chaos”. Fintiri attested.

Governor Fintiri while applauding the way and manner the protesters are conducting themselves peacefully if not for pockets of reported violence and looting stated that,as the leaders of the people, they must at all times not only listen but act.

“The lesson we must derive from the protest is the constant reminder that it is not enough to tell the citizens, “We have heard”, we must be seen as doing the needful in providing solutions to citizens’ concerns.

“This is Day-4 of the protest. In Adamawa State, we can safely say our people have harken to our calls for calm and the situation is peaceful; where there are pockets of protests, the protesters are a minority, who are conducting themselves in the most respectable civil manner while pressing home their demands for good governance and better life for the citizens of Nigeria.

“None of us can deny the fact that there is hunger and general poverty in the land; this has been made worse by the harsh economic realities, a deficient policy direction and the insensitivity of the national government to engage the citizens civilly.

“Fellow citizens, we can feel your pain; we can relate with what you are passing through; but we also assure you that as your leaders, the best payback you deserve from us is an advocacy to any level and a leadership that can work round the clock to not only reverse the situation of your ugly realities but restore the collective hopes of our livelihood.

“Good governance is your right and that is what we have all sworn to give you. That is what is our trademark in Adamawa state. As a government, we don’t really need a protest to remind us of this sacred responsibility. We are doing our best to cushion the effect of your hardship. We are particularly conscious of the disturbing youth budge with a growing unemployment rate that is alarming. We saw this coming.

“To cushion the effect of transport hardship on the citizens, we have test-ran the intra and intercity mass transit system with our deployment of 10 luxurious busses and found it impactful. We are therefore scaling this up by deployment over 30 more busses to ply our roads. We are also going to allocate a substantial number of the busses to our schools to fix the harsh transportation void for our students.

“Fellow citizens, the only solution to hunger is to take agriculture more seriously. In this direction, we have been very proactive by constituting a food security committee with the mandate to aggressively drive a youth-to-farm campaign. The committee is working round the clock to ensure every local government has a demonstration farm of a minimum of 300 hectares where our youths would be trained on modern agriculture practice with inputs freely provided. So far, we have received 35 trucks, out of the 65 trucks of fertilizers allocated to us by the Federal Government.

“The state government has equally procured 69 more trucks. We have procured 123,381 kg of rice seed, 5000 cartons of assorted herbicides and other inputs. Very soon, we shall flag-