BAGO’S BAGS OF BLESSINGS FOR NIGERLITES

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE GOVERNOR OF NIGER STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, FARMER MOHAMMED UMARU BAGO BY ADVOCATES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE AND HUMANITY (RENEWED HOPE)

The title of a farmer fits him like a second skin, literally and figuratively. Apart from his avowed commitment to ensuring food sufficiency and food security in Niger State, making food affordable, available and accessible, His Excellency, Farmer Mohammed Umaru Bago, has beautifully turned Niger State into a garden lushly vegetated with dividends of democracy and good governance.

For nearly one year now, Farmer Mohammed Umaru Bago has deliberately cultivated improved varieties of governance seeds through the policies and programmes of his administration in Niger State.

Today, it is safe to say that through the passion and commitment of the governor, Niger State is a fertile ground for exemplary leadership, epitomised by Governor Bago.

Governor Bago understands Maslow’s hierarchy of needs of humanity, and has effectively deployed that with passion since assumption of duty as the man in the cockpit of Flight Niger.

Governor Bago is a specialist in humanitarianism, using good governance to spray fragrance on humanity, restoring smiles on hitherto frowned faces. His focus is on how to make Niger happy through good governance, and that has been visible in the most cherished manner.

The golden farmer has made the ground fertile for welfare and wealth creation. He has excellently complemented the efforts of the federal government through the NG-Cares and BAGO-Cares. Under this fruitful collaboration, cash transfer of N100,000, laptops, POS machines, and phones have been given to 5,000 beneficiaries, and the impact speaks volume.

The foresighted farmer facilitated the distribution of one trailer load of rice to 21 local government areas of Niger State while Kontagora, Chanchaga, Suleja and Bida Local Government Areas received two trailer load of rice respectively.

Governor Bago is a consultant in cushioning hardship and ameliorating suffering. That has been expressed in his cushioning the effect of fuel subsidy removal, where palliatives were distributed in Niger State this: 274 wards in Niger State where each ward in 21 local government areas got N10 million, with Kontagora, Chanchaga, Suleja and Bida recieving N20 million each. The traditional institutions got N80 million Naira, IDPs had N75 million, organized labour had N110 million while the political parties received N150 million.

The incurable humanitarian has equally distributed food items to 700 households with 13,000bags of grains to IDPs while N100,000 each was disbursed to 250 vulnerable elderly citizens through the office of the First Lady.

This is in addition to the feeding of 559,903 school children with nutritious meals on a daily basis under the Niger State School Feeding Programme plus the distribution of food items to 3,000 victims of terrorism.

Farmer Bago’s effort is being supported by the good work of the office of the First Lady, Hajiya Fatima Mohammed Bago who is doing marvelous things for the orphanage, less privileged and those in correctional centres as well as for maternal and child care health.

All of these are in addition to Governor Bago’s effort at aggressive ongoing urban renewal and infrastructural development, commitment to the inclusive education of the children effort at ending insecurity, a revolutionised economy, economic stimulation for job and wealth creation.

This necessitated his signing of a ten year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bayer AG on Agricultural Revolution in Niger State. Bayer AG is a renowned world’s largest multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology and agriculture companies headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany.

He is not found wanting in any department of good governance. That is seen in the significant improvement of the internally generated revenue of Niger State to complement the allocation from federal government, which has been judiciously deployed to the development and welfare of Niger State.

From whatever angle one looks at it, His Excellency, Farmer Mohammed Umaru Bago has made Niger State a fertile ground for exemplary leadership and good governance: this is more pronounced in the welfare and happiness of Nigerlites. He has not only made Niger State a garden of good governance, but has also stunned the world with the harvest dividends of the dividends of democracy. These are all in the bags of Bago for Niger State. There are bags of blessing for the people. The farmer governor has shown signs that Nigerlites are in for bountiful harvest in and out of season.

Courtesy:

Hajiya Zainab A. Ibrahim
Director-General
Advocates for Good Governance and Humanity (Renewed Hope Agenda)
Abuja
Nigeria