I don’t know if state police’ll solve our problems –Sule, Nasarawa gov SaturdayMotivation
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, talks to journalists on the sidelines of the Nigerian Bar Association’s annual conference in Lagos about local government autonomy, the issue of state police and other issues. TUNDE AJAJA presents the excerpt
Farming is a major trade in Nasarawa State, what specific things are you doing to assist farmers and boost production? On hydropower, we are successfully getting the Federal Ministry of Water Resources to start the process of constructing a dam at a waterfall that we call Farin Ruwa. On our own part, we have awarded the contract for the road linking the major highway to that site. Overall, in the area of power, we have already identified three major areas that we would focus on, starting with solar power.
The issue of debts has been an issue across states, what is the volume of debt your administration incurred? Speaking about the autonomy of the local governments, Nasarawa is one of the first states that decided to embrace the autonomy wholeheartedly. When it started in June, we allowed the local government areas to set up their own committees and distribute their funds. We worked with them to do that and we did not touch, not even N1 of their money. So far, they have been able to pay their salaries for June, July and now August.
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