Former governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, shares with JUSTIN TYOPUUSU his prison experience and the 2023 elections, among other issues
Now that I am home, I have access to the governor, who is the chief executive of the state. My advice and role will be to see that we bring all the security agencies together and assist them to promote peace in the state so that bandits will be flushed out before the elections. That is the only way we can have a peaceful Taraba State and conduct elections to choose another set of leaders.Governor Darius Ishaku has done his best as any other elected person will do.
You see, the problem starts with the investigation; if the police will do their jobs well, less people will be convicted. Sometimes, they even ask for a certain amount of money to let someone go free and if you don’t give, they will charge you to court. Before you know it, you will have four or more counts against you and you will end up in prison. If the police do their jobs well, they won’t have to go to court. And if they do, it is the judges’ duty to pass a verdict.
Yes, there were times we sat and deliberated on many issues. We came to a conclusion at one of the sittings that we all did well for our states, but we asked ourselves, ‘Why us?’ We heard about other people being charged with offences involving N10bn, N20bn and so on, but at the end of the day, their case gets missing or withdrawn. There are instances too where they say instead of convicting you, let’s do a plea bargain.
We had generators, fire fighting trucks, vehicles for utility and so on. I don’t want to blame anyone, I just hope that anyone coming in 2023 that I will have a say in his coming and I will insist that the first four years is to rehabilitate the dilapidated structures and reposition the state. If you go to the specialist hospital, most of the equipment we procured, we ensured we bought extra.
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