Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi –
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has lamented that some forces are making efforts to tear the State’s Executive Council apart and cause divisions among the members. This is just as he charged them to remain focused, united and minimize the divisive tendencies.
Governor Mohammed stated this in his speech at the first State Executive Council Meeting held at the Exco Chamber of the Government House Annex, Bauchi on Wednesday,
“Let me tell you that in the future, people will be telling you so many negative things, they are all part of politics, part of unconstructive criticisms aimed at discouraging us.
“And I am aware that there are some forces trying to disparage our group, trying to penetrate our group (State Executive Council), to make sure, politically, we are divided by dropping ideas, dropping names and so on and so forth. We should beware of them and remain focused. As far as I am concerned, I appreciate what you do and I think the people of Bauchi also appreciate what we are collectively doing”.
“We should please, minimize all those things that divide us, those divisive tendencies, utterances and what have you. I hear some of them and I discard them because, as a leader, it is not everything that you react to, but certainly, as a governor, I have so many eras that I hear so many things”.
“And I don’t blame you because, obviously, we have plugged all the loopholes, even within the civil service, we may not have to bank on them because we are stopping the ghost workers syndromes, we are stopping them from getting so much on the system and in doing so, they may definitely not be happy,” he said.
The governor said that there are some public servants in the state who are cultured and tutored in corruption, saying that such cannot be eradicated but can only be minimized.
He said: “If you look at the generation of public servants that we have today, they are those who have been tutored, who have been cultured with aspects of corruption, take and take from the system. Even committee meetings, they way they are being done, it is not in a way that are known to those of us that are from the federal system.
“Civil servants have taken alliances, if you don’t give money, they don’t move an inch. We are not used to it, but I discovered that there is even a procedure, a law in Bauchi State allowing that which makes it so difficult for us to change. The only thing is that we will minimize that culture in stopping it completely, you will meet a brick wall.”
Mohammed also lamented that he inherited a bad system and administration which was left in decay and decadence by his predecessors.
“Whatever is coming out from the public in terms of public perception or assessment, we must bear it. We should be wary and be ware that we can always go back to the negative because the public is always gullible, the public is always having this naccistic ideas in terms of taking everything with a pinch of salt in terms of mistrust and suspicion, especially those who brought us here, the electorates.
“We have done so many promises not because we want to deceive and delude anybody, but because we want to do more. We inherited a very bad system and administration that has left everything to decay. It is as if we have given up to the era of decay and decadence .
“We have done our best to rescue the state from this situation which was appearing very hopeless but I urge you to do more with little resources,” he admonished.
