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Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed has urged the People’s Republic of China to use Bauchi as a pilot state where technology is deployed to overcome insurgency and bandits in Nigeria.
Governor Mohammed made the suggestion on Thursday when he hosted the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Juanchun on the sidelines of the Bauchi Investment Opportunities Summit held at the Banquet Hall of the Government House Bauchi.
“Even though Bauchi is adjudged to be the most secured state in the North, we don’t want to take this for granted,” he told ambassador. The governor explained during the event, which attracted local and international investors in the mining, oil and gas, tourism and other sectors, that his administration has done quite a lot to sustain the peace in Bauchi State, but that insecurity remains the biggest threat to investments.
He identified six key areas including agriculture, energy, water resources, natural resources, sustainable economy and physical infrastructure where the government has put in place modalities that will improve business opportunities and ensure a business environmental-friendly atmosphere.
He said: “With all these investments discussions and PPP, we want you to look at security. We want you to help us. We have pockets of incidents here and there, people being affected. We don’t want a situation where people can’t go to farm.
“We are mainly agrarian, we are mainly workers and we have high number of middle class. Poverty has been worrying us and by the time we can’t go to farm to do this small subsistence farming, we don’t know what will happen.
“Make Bauchi the pilot scheme where you will use technology and knowledge, where you will use communities and government to keep us secured and fortify our borders and make us a safe haven even in this season of terrorism, bloodshed and deaths that Nigeria has become. We want Bauchi to stand out as a place to be visited and respected.”
