YOLA — Commissioner Information and Strategy, Adamawa state Comrade Umar Garba Pella has reiterated government resolve to complete all projects initiated by the present administration and those abandoned by the previous regime in the state.
Comrade Pella gave the assurance in an interview with The West African Pilot News said the present administration is poised to deliver the mandate of the majority of people who voted it into power through the provision of infrastructures across the state under its urban renewal project.
“As a government, we are committed not only initiating and completing our own projects, but also completing every project that has been abandoned by our predecessors.
“We realize that if we improve on infrastructures it can attract investment into the state and that is the basis for the level of this you see at the moment”, he said.
He stated that with the transparent nature of government it has achieved much within two years and indigenes of Adamawa state can assess it, and solicited support to enable the government of the day to deliver its mandate.
The Commissioner explained that when the present regime came on board it realized that urban centres are experiencing a deficit in terms of infrastructures, and though it is high time to work on it and the revolutionary renewal campaign that is tied to infrastructure cur across the entire state so as to turn the fortune of the state for the better.
On the flyover and other projects, the Commissioner said the flyover is the first of its kind in the Northeast which is in line with the philosophy of the government under the leadership of Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri who have a high test for infrastructural values.
He said work is progressing on Maiha-Fulbere-Zhedinyi-Pella and Toungo electrification projects and the contractors are doing quality work and the government is also appreciating the pace of work, attributing it meeting obligations in the contract by the government.
“We want Adamawa to be in the news to be the first to do anything positive and developmental to our people, the flyover is going to be a legacy project, and people kept saying is a good thing, but the timing is wrong and the answers we are always giving them is if it not now when?
“So far good the project is being delivered at a speed that is so precedence in the history of contracts in the state, the contractor is doing quality work and the government is also appreciating the pace of work, this is because the government has been up and doing in terms of its obligations in the contract.
“if you remember Gombi-Ga’anda-Fotta road and Maiha-Fulbere-Zhedinyi-Pella these roads are whose contracts at a time become moribund if you remember these are the first two projects that were flag off by Gov Nyako during his first tenure and up to now is sad the work has not been completed.
“When we came on board we realize that there a lot of encumbrances around the contractual process, we had to sit down again for a very long time with the contractors going forth and back, we ended up agreeing on terms that make them mobilize back to the site, now they have mobilized to site on Pella-Maiha road and they doing good work.
“Work on Toungo electrification is progressing well, if you remember during our campaign is one of the promises we made to them that once we are voted into power, they are rest assured that they would be connected to the National Grid.
“Every promise we made during our campaign as a covenant and a covenant that must be fulfilled.
“Part of the narrative we want to take away from Toungo and the rest of the places that politicians can promise and fulfill because at a point in time because of the nature of politics in this part of the world there is a level people are losing confidence in all the promises politicians made, we want a situation whereby the end of this time people can look back and hold us accountable for everything we have promised them and can be satisfied with the fact that.
“All promises we made God willing we will deliver, Toungo is one of the stories, is a story we want to leave permanently on the ground in the history of the state, we have changed the fortune of that place, work on the National Grid and is still ongoing”, he added.
The Commissioner said the Umaru Fintiri led administration wants to change the narrative that politicians can promise and fulfill considering the nature of politics in this part of the world where people are losing confidence in all the promises made by politicians.
Comrade Pella said the government will want people at the end of the day to hold it accountable for all its promises.
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