BAUCHI STATE: THE JOURNEY SO FAR,

FIRST 100 DAYS OF SELFLESS STEWARDSHIP TO THE PEOPLE OF BAUCHI STATE – THE JOURNEY SO FAR,
BEING AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF BAUCHI STATE
BY HIS EXCELLENCY MOHAMMED ABDULLAHI
ABUBAKAR Esq. GOVERNOR OF BAUCHI STATE
ON 5TH SEPTEMBER, 2015
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Fellow Citizens of Bauchi State,
All Praises be to Allah, the Beneficent, and the Merciful.
We have marked the 100th day since we took the oath of committal to work assiduously for the progress of Bauchi State and its people; counting each day as an opportunity to serve our people to the fullest. Though relatively short, but, we do believe that the 100 day mark is a worthy milestone for our strategic focus and general governance direction to be evaluated on the gauges of intent, posturing and deliberate action.
2. Since we took the oath of office, our administration has not looked back on its promise to restore the dignity of Bauchi State and enhance the living conditions of our people. The reigns handed to us by the previous administration were no doubt replete with massive profligacy with state resources, wanton disregard of laid down administrative processes, absolute rot in resource management processes and crass nepotism in undertaking general governance duties.

3. We have taken the time since our inauguration as a government to fully assess the status of our system after the horrendous abuse it suffered in both its structure, staffing, process management and most especially resource management.
4. Indeed, the relative quiet that has characterized our initial days in government should be taken as enough evidence that precious time has been deployed literally to the task of cleaning the rot left behind by the previous government.
5. Our government has received the reports of the Main Transition and Technical Committees. Those comprehensive documents have commendably enriched the strategic focus of our government to strive towards the attainment of an educationally enhanced, economically advanced and constructively vigilant population. These have helped us outline priority programs in line with our campaign promises, enumerating impactful programs that will portray our preparedness to leave Bauchi State far better than it was bequeathed to us. A deliberate effort in this regard is the setting-up of the Budget Review Committee which was mandated to draw up areas of focus in line with prioritization for provision of funding, and has since submitted its report to Government. It also caused the setting-up of the state’s Assets Recovery Committee, one that has garnered statewide applause by conducting a rancor free recovery process of huge numbers of vehicles, generating sets and transformers that had been frittered away and personalized by officials of the previous administration and their cohorts. The Committee has also recovered several plots of land arbitrarily allocated against extant laws.
6. Consequent upon these commendable feats, our government has just broadened the terms of engagement and reference of the Recovery Committee and accordingly mandated them to their searchlight to the State’s Ministry for Local Government Affairs, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and the case of the Central Bank of Nigeria N2 billion Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Loan.
7. It is with enormous gratitude to this unrelenting recovery drive that I wish to announce the fruitful efforts in locating the state owned “Embraer 145 Aircraft” in Morocco. Series of meetings have just been concluded with a view to receiving the aircraft at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport Bauchi in a matter of days.
CIVIL SERVICE
8. Our government has in these 100 days earned for itself a toga of a labour friendly administration, one that has allowed the Civil Service the freedom to operate in maximization of its duties as enshrined in the state’s civil service structure. It will be recalled that, immediately after we assumed office, we were able to resolve num