Kaduna Governor, Senator Uba Sani has disclosed that the welfare and security of the Southern Kaduna people are top priorities of his government.
He made this known in Kafanchan, during the closing ceremony of the 3-Day maiden Southern Kaduna Festival on Sunday.
The governor charged the people to share thoughts during the maiden festival celebrations on developmental challenges facing the people and make further and better recommendations to the government for intervention.
“Through this festival, l urge you to share thoughts on the developmental challenges facing the people of Southern Kaduna and make further and better recommendations to the government for intervention.”
“Ours is a listening and people oriented administration. Your welfare and security are our top priorities. We have zero tolerance for discrimination, we shall take development to all nooks and crannies of the state. With your support and cooperation, we shall make Kaduna state a model for development and peaceful coexistence in Nigeria.”
He noted that the festival is an opportunity for the people of the state to connect with their roots forge friendship and unite the people through shared experience, music, food and dance, saying that by so doing, the people of the state will foster a sense of community.
“Our diversity is a source of strength and we must harness it to develop our local economies. We are one people and must never allow conflict entrepreneurs to retard our progress and development.
“Our administration will not waiver in its commitment to rebuilding trust, addressing our Infrastructure and human capital deficits by bringing succour to the poor and vulnerable and bridging the gap between the rural and urban areas as well as empowering the youths and women.”
He assured that he has flagged off rural drive-through road constructions and electrification, stressing that the state government’s strategic discussions with critical stakeholders were ongoing.
“Security is top most in our agenda, we have strengthened our collaboration with the federal security agencies and enhance manpower of the Kaduna state vigilante service with the recruitment of additional 7,000 personnel in order to enhane security network in the state,” he explained.
According to him, the present administration in Kaduna state wants to leave the state better than the way it met it, believing that the celebration of the festival was an indication that peace is fast returning to every nook and cranny of the state.
Similarly, Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa state, who was present at closing ceremony in Kafanchan said, “There is strength is our diversity. We should encourage those things that build us together rather than those things that divide us.”
He added, “As people that have found ourselves in the geographical entity of Nigeria, we must give good leadership and l believed that the governor of Kaduna state has started giving good leadership to the people of the state and we can see that through the gathering of the people of Southern Kaduna.”
He stressed that the occasion shows oneness and unity of the people of Southern Kaduna and enjoined to use their diversity as their strength to achieve great things for themselves and their children yet unborn.
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