BAUCHI STATE: TWO YEARS IN ANOTHER REVERSE GEAR


Preamble:

In 1999, just at the beginning of our nascent democracy when the elected and the electorate were at the learning stage, a write up captioned Bauchi State – two years in a reverse gear was released by some elites who have given us the impression that their criticism was just, honest and sincerely targeted at minimizing wastages and derailing corruption to during Ahmadu Adamu Muazu Administration. Now it’s their turn.
After eight years of democratic experience, the writers of that constructive criticism were chanced to be in public office courtesy of the 2007 general election and people became happy thinking their write up which was based on high principles and democratic ideologies will form the basis of their actions in the new administration.
Unfortunately, the issue of air travel which was the pivotal point of the write up is now repeated at even a wider scale. Most surprisingly, they are always part of the trip now or always there to welcome his Excellency and express their solidarity for the inefficient usage of our resources.
What we are yet to know is weather there are different rates charged between now and then and weather the basic needs which the former write up claims are denied have now been provided. Or are huge discounts obtained since the governor was a former Aviation minister and knows of new strategies to fly with lesser fuel? The resources could have otherwise being used for catering for the basic needs of the state and yet the critiques are busy enjoying flamboyant government gestures whereas the electorates’ condition are continually on the decline.

Political Matters:

The administration came with all zeal of defending its own interest and any alteration to their master plan will be vehemently resisted. This has been testified when a gang of hoodlums beat up a member of the house of Assembly just for indicating his interest in the position of the speaker. When the Mallam called him and he showed no intention of stepping down for the Mallam’s candidate, the Mallam asked his hoodlums to take laws into their own hands and make him conform to the wishes of the Mallam. The hoodlums have been well breeded before campaign and after victory they see no reason why the sayings of the Mallam should not be followed by the member. It took God’s divine intervention to save his life from the lynching of the angry hooligans.
The present speaker now moves with all the arrogance of power and considers himself more important than his coincidental position. He has arrogated the powers of the house to himself and his arrogance knows no bound as he is a strong loyalist of the Mallam and therefore thinks of himself as indispensable. The Mallam should have guided him on the right way if he is a true Mallam and always keep in mind that for the living four years is just like 4 days and remember that many hard core personalities far above your standard have held similar position and are now nowhere to be found. Please be guided!



Expenditure:

The governor who resides in the federal capital territory comes to Bauchi any day he has an official engagement using the most expensive means of transportation; a phenomenon he has been using to criticize his immediate past predecessor. He is a day governor who after assumption of power has not stayed in the state capital for a period of three days consecutively. What mismanagement! Unfortunately, with his current expenses on air traveling, he will spend in four years what his predecessor has not spent in eight years and this alone has convincingly portrayed him as a power monger who was just criticizing the former governor just to get to the hot seat at all costs and at whatever price.


Social Factors:

The issue of the first lady is another issue that poses a great threat to the mal administrative tendencies of the government. The wives of his Excellency are constantly in aggressive competition to outwit one another. Competition is something that should be encouraged in industries, markets and other important economic sectors but not the way our resources are being squandered to run the office of the first lady which contravenes our religious and cultural heritage. This is however due to the inability of his Excellency to put the wives under control and consequently each of the wives is running a separate office under the same name and obtaining maximum support from him so that none of them will be offended thereby wasting resources enough to cater for the damage to the ear drums of the electorate courtesy of the in epileptic blast of siren from the first, second, third, and fourth ladies that never ceases.
His Excellency has proved to the world that he is too much a nice person that can not exercise an effective control over his polygamous home for fear of offending any of his wives including the non – indigene and yet he claims to be improving the standard of living of the people of the state when a non indigenous first lady has brought her entire clan to come and exploit the resources of our state for the benefit of an instrument she calls her husband and his inability to halt that. May our resources be saved!

Employment Opportunities:

The entire state is now run like a traditional palace where appointments are not based on merit or competence but rather on loyalty to his royal highness the Matawalle of Bauchi. His blood brother has been appointed the Chairman of the State Primary Education Board for no any other motive than to mobilize and harmonize corruption in that place to recover his campaign generosity. What a selfish move!
The numerous appointments of the Special and Personal Assistants to the Governor is just done arbitrarily and as things are now only God can determine the portfolios of the SA’s and PA’s. They are randomly appointed and referred to ministries or parastatals and some even go to the extent of demanding for hand over from permanent secretaries. What else will you expect if you are appointed SA courtesy of impressive performance at SARA SUKA.
The character commission is never reflected and Bauchi local government alone has more than 40% of the appointments in a state with 20 local governments.

House of Assembly Jeeps:

When the state government has made maximum recovery of cars from the political figures of the opposition party, it is well believed that the gifts of luxirious cars to political office holders have ended since a Mallam has been voted into power. The Mallam seems to be unaware of the severe sufferings of the masses if such amounts could be expended on cars for house of Assembly members and the electorates have nothing near to it as compensation. In fact this is a situation of monkey dey work baboon dey chop.
The recent was the purchase of new brand Honda popularly known as continue discussion and dash them to the members representing Bauchi state at the house of representative and the senate

The betrayal of trust
The people of Bauchi State have entrusted themselves to him and at the end was them with their blood. The only and unprecedented deputy Governor in the whole nation receive it most. It is in record that the succsee maalam recoerde was largely due to the presence of Garba Gadi as his running mate