DANKWAMBO; THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN IN GOMBE STATE. His Capital Market approach taking Gombe state to Nigeria Stock Exchange, NSE, for a Bond of N20 billion, repayable in seven years, granted an assurance of a second term in office, also signify for the first time that Gombe State, though ranked 33rd on the nation’s population and state allocation index manifest a serious statement of intent that is administration will not play a second fiddle to none among his compatriots within the federation. His administration’s bid at the Capital Market was swallowed up within days of his presentation, only comparable to the Lagos state Government’s bid in terms of feasibility and urgency, denoting official approval to Governor Dankwambo’s stringent economic policies and prudence in fund management. Declared Governor Dankwambo of the outcome of his successful bid to the Stock Exchange, “just as every new challenge throws up the potentials to find a solution, my administration in Gombe has the answers to challenges of wealth creation, but would not resonate if the entire state citizenry, including the elites speaks as one, because inherent in unity is strength” he admonished “It is when citizens set aside their private interests, completely identify with the state and give it their best that common good can be achieved. He also postulated that the prospects for a future of economic progress and prosperity are reasonably assured but with needfor people to change their perception of government”. The Bond has been deployed in a methodical and transparent manner, using the state’s annual budget as instrument policyformulation and implementation to deliver on the expectation of the people in areas considered the most compelling such as infrastructure renewal, healthcare delivery, agriculture, education and water supply. The administration has taken it upon itself to ensure that public schools compete favourably with private schools in terms of facilities in such a way that pupils who do not attend private schools would not have lost anything. The essential meaning of responsibility is accountability in human fulfillment in shaping of society’s future. The submission of the Abdulsalam-led Committee on Education and its admonition of past administrations in the state responsible for the fallen standard of education means that certain values that were embedded in the state’s education in the past have been eroded, emphasizing the need to go back to those values which made the education system acceptable in the past; the Dankwambo-led administration was thus compelled to invest massively in infrastructural renewal and reforms in education that gulped well over N4 billion within the first four months of the administration. The infrastructural facilities being made available to students in Gombe state by the present administration are such that would lead to the expected goal of providing manpower resources to the State Public Service in the future. Power and Agriculture Power is a major enabler the same way Agriculture is, because through it, an agro-industrial base which is a platform for increased industrialization can be created; when one considers transportation, the ability to move goods around easily, there is growth which in itself unlocks opportunity in other sectors; the corollary there is that any growth that touches on power, food security, transportation and housing affects the generality of the people. Governor Dankwambo who said his administration has deployed financial resources, time and personnel to agriculture in the last two years insisted it is not only to address her food security challenges but also to open up the value chain for participation and opportunities in the agricultural sector which he emphasized must also be about food processing, food packaging and merchandizing including possibilities of Commodity Exchange. In line with his administration’s tradition of being a benchmark for good practices and a primus inter pares among his contemporaries, he recently performed the flag-off of the construction anddualization of the 49-kilometre stretch from Tunfure-Lawanti road access to the Gombe International Airport as a statement of the quality and standard the Dankwambo-led administration attaches to the efficient transportation of produce from within and outside Gombe and the country in general. With just close to two and half years in office, most of the capital projects earlier initiated in the life of the administration have been completed and latter ones turned full circle, repositioning the state as the true Jewel in the Savannah, serving as a benchmark for other aspiring states within the sub-region. “In Government, every idea has its pilot and teething stages; no policy is ever worth its value without experimenting, according to Governor Dankwambo; administrators must show needed courage and innovations to chart new course where none seems to exist as it is only perseverancethat leads to progress and success” With the Dankwambo-led administration’s open-door policy and an all-inclusive executive council working in unison for the state’s complete economic independence, no one should sit in criticism corner and criticize, but play his part from where he will be in a better position to point out errors. “The administration in Gombe under my leadership is receptive to new ideas as it will always adopt new ways of doing things once it is convinced. It will enable the administration to engage in such issues as are of public importance and are concerned with the transformation ofvalues; they also hold a people together and maintain an orderly state”, Governor Dankwamboenjoined. Policy decisions in Government are more often than not, the politics of environmental management, with policy makers behaving in a cooperative or conflicting manner, extending either friendly or hostile behavior toward the citizenry: it is formulated to benefit: in terms of the mix of conflict and cooperation: the comparative politics. The scope of the policy may also be defined by the subfields it encompasses. These visions of new politics share a conviction that the institutionalization of Dr Dankwambo’s policies and programmes is a necessary condition for the attainment of democratic government in a modern society, and in the age of reasoning. His application and expansion of creative intelligence represents his development strategy in moving the state towards the path of economic and industrial attainment, independent of outside sources: his is the practical application of all relevant knowledge in the social, physical, and natural realm to specific problems identified well ahead of time. An administration as diverse and pluralistic in the implementation of state policies and programmes within huge financial constraints offer many temptations to critics of different views. What people think about the government is the outcome always of the experience of part administrations on which they are immersed. The Dankwambo-led administration in this regard should not be seen as different from its predecessors; its administration has come at an age of critical transition in which at the end, a new social order will be born, embraced by all through the presence of massive socio-economic infrastructures and a new progress orbit. “A new political philosophy is necessary to a new world” remarked an ancient Greekphilosopher. The perception of social thought, with the advent of the Dankwambo-led administration in Gombe state has shifted, which it is hoped will be acceptable to all along with the privileges it maintains. Open-minded readers of Nigeria’s political scene with focus on our young state chief executives would have realized within the last two years that the boundaries between politics, business and social issues have been drawn too tightly for society’s good. Within the past few years, there have been revolutionary changes throughout the country,echoing a new political philosophy that government by tradition must be replaced by government by new thinking and approach to matters of governance which in Gombe state, is been governed under the cardinal programmes of Qualitative Education: Rural Economic and Regional Planning Development; Infrastructure and Housing Development; Youth Development Programme; Road Construction; Water and Power Generation; Poverty Alleviation; Health Programme among other critical areas of the state’s economy. TO BE CONTINUED
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:00:16 +0000
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