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Says governor has penchant for abandoned projects
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From John Adams, Minna
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Niger State has accused the state governor, Umaru Mohammed Bago, of abandoning over 250 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses, purchased with taxpayers’ money, to waste away three years after they were acquired.
In a statement on Monday in Minna, the spokesperson of the party’s governorship campaign council, Hon. Jonathan Vatsa, said the buses, procured by the governor to ease the transportation burden on the masses following the removal of fuel subsidy, had been abandoned for over three years and left to waste away.
Vatsa described the governor as someone with a penchant for abandoned projects, saying that the same attitude is reflected in the number of abandoned projects across the state.
According to him, “What can the governor tell the people of this state as to the reason for allowing those buses that were purchased with state resources to waste away at the trade fair complex?
“For over three years now, these buses have been left at the trade fair complex, rotting away, with all the important parts and components vandalised.
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“These buses, which were acquired through a loan, were meant to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal on the citizens, but unfortunately this is the fate that has befallen the buses.
“But as we speak, these buses are home to reptiles and criminals hiding inside them, because you have a governor who has no respect for public funds.
“It baffles me how someone can have a penchant and love for abandoned projects. Everywhere you go in the state, it is abandoned projects, with no single project commissioned in the last three and a half years of this government.”
The former Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism in the state maintained that the state should never again witness this kind of government for another four years.
Vatsa stated: “In 2027, the people of this great state have a choice to make: either to remain stagnant, with abandoned projects staring them in the face and unpayable loans, or to choose the path of progress.”
He claimed that while private projects and farms witnessed 24 hours of work with adequate funding, government projects being undertaken by this administration had all been abandoned for lack of funds, despite the unprecedented resources from the federation account.
