Almakura's 3 Years of Impactful Representation in Nasarawa South

Almakura’s 3 years of impactful representation in Nasarawa South

After turning Nasarawa state into a model of good governance and infrastructural development in Nigeria as governor for 8 years the people of Nasarawa south decided to reward Almakura with the senatorial seat of the zone in 2019 election Muazu Abari writes on Almakura 3 years of impactful representation in Nasarawa South

When the founding fathers of Nasarawa state jettisoned their differences to come together and championed a caused that led to the creation of the state they did that with good intention is to freed their people from many years of exploitation,domination, suppression and actualised the creation of a new state of their dream that will work for all,break all barriers of under development and meet up with its infrastructural challenges.

Since its creation on 1st October 1996,Nasarawa state continued to be unlucky with patriotic leadership that will translates the yearnings and aspirations of its citizens and vision of its founding fathers into reality just as the state continued to slide backward in all phases of Development until in the build up to 2011 elections when God decided to answered the prayers of the people of Nasarawa state by Bringing in Alh.Umaru Tanko Almakura as the third executive governor of Nasarawa state.

When Almakura came on board he promised to invest massively in the infrastructural development of the state and leaved Nasarawa state better than he met as clearly stated in his inaugural addressed titled:A fresh start and a new deal when he said”let it be said that when the modern history of our state come to be written that when we are tried and tested we were not found wanting in moral fibre,that we did not falter or even flinch,And when finally we took our exit we left Nasarawa in a far better form and shape than we have found it,or than anyone had ever dared to imagined”

With these commitments and amidst so many bumps and obstacles ranging from decayed infrastructures,financial strangulation,frightening debt profile Almakura who inherited a completely grounded State with out a single asphalt road immediately swung into action to fulfilled his promises to the people which saw massive investments in the infrastructural development of the state leading to massive constructions of access,rural and urban roads with dual carriage ways and street lights within the length and breadth of the state which linked and opened communities for economic activities and prosperity.

Lafia the state capital which was a glorified local government prior to his emergence was given a first lift, regained its lost glory and completely transform into attractive state capital with huge investments on its infrastructures,massive road constructions,traffic and street lights at designated points to regulates human and vehicular movements among other urban renewal efforts the education sector which was in coma with the gates of all the tertiary institutions in the state under locks and keys were opened for normal academic activities.

Almakura administration have also embarked on massive establishments ,renovations and rehabilitations of schools across the state.for the first time in the history of the state storey buildings with world class facilities were build as primary schools known as Taal model schools in all the 13 local governments.in addition to,a brand new world standard special school for the disabled established in 3 senetorial districts located in lafia,keffi and Akwanga.as well as a brand new school of nursing and midwivery.

A 3 storey hostel accommodations in all the tertiary institutions in the state namely Nasarawa state university keffi,state polytechnic lafia,college of education Akwanga,college of Agriculture lafia even the federal university lafia benefited tremendously from Almakura infrastructural drive ,a brand new command secondary school among others just as the health sector also witnessed massive transformation through payment of salary arrears and implementation of new salary structures for health workers.

There was also introduction of free medical service to pregnant women and children under 5 years in addition to massive constructions and upgrading of general hospitals,primary health cares centres as well as recruitments of doctors,health workers and construction of 3 models hospitals in the 3 senatorial district of the state located in lafia,Akwanga and Nasarawa among other giant strides in the health sector.

Other achievements of the administration can be seen in the areas of water supply,electricity improvements,rivatalisation of the transport sector, constructions of brand new modern markets across the state,fire service outlets,lafia international cargo airport,digital land administration,500 capacity lafia city square among many other unprecedented achievements never experienced in the history of the state since its creation.

Within the 8 years he served as governor

he has succeeded to raise the bar of governance and turned Nasarawa into a model of good governance and infrastructural development in Nigeria with his legacies and footprint scattered across all sectors of the state which earned him his accolades of”The architect of modern Nasarawa” given to him by the ordinary people of the state who adjudged him as the best governor Nasarawa ever produced since its creation.

His superlative performance which have left a big shoe in the governance of the state which in the estimation of most people will be very difficult if not impossible to replicate lets alone surpassed in the nearest future did not only make it possible for him to get the people of the state to embraced his choice of Gov sule as his preferred successor but also prompted the people of Nasarawa south to reward him with the senatorial seat of the zone in 2019 election.

Since his election in 2019,Almakura continued to proved that he is indeed the best option for Nasarawa south as indicated by his senetirial campaign slogan as he continued to served the zone with the same zeal,passion and commitments as he did as governor and within just 3 years.in office as a senetor he has given Nasarawa south result oriented representation that is second to none and delivered true dividends of democracy to his people especially in the areas of legislative business,attracting federal presence,lives saving intervations and projects executions among others.

In the area of legislative business Almakura continued to make his constituents and the state proud with his brand of representation and glorified the name of the state and his senatorial district in the eyes of the world with his vibrancy,oratory skills,, frequent and brilliant contributions to National debates on the floor of the Senate which endeared him to the hearts of his colleagues and those that matters in government who hold him in high esteem and make it possible for him to attract various projects and interventions from government ministries, departments and agencies.

He i s always in the forefront lobbying for project’s, sponsoring motions and bills that will add value to the socioeconomic lives of his people and deepening democracy in Nigeria leveraging on his past legislative experienced when he served in the federal House of representatives in the second republic.in the last 3 years he has sponsored so many bills and motions some of which includes fire arms control bill, federal university lafia teaching bill which have been passed into law and mining sector reform bill aimed at unbundling the sector inline with President Buhari diversification policy currently awaiting third reading.

In the area of road constructions in 3

years of his steadwardship Almakura constructed and rehabilitated so many urban and rural roads in all the 5 local governments of southern zone .some of these roads includes constructions of rural access road at shabu,provision of road infrastructures in mining communities from Ashige-ugah-fadaman Bauna in lafia Local government,provision of road infrastures in mining communities from Agyaragu to kwarra in keana local government.

Provision of road infrastructures in mining communities from obi-ikposogye- Assakio in Obi local government,provision of road infrastructures in mining communities from kanje-jankwa in Awe local government,provision of road infrastructures in mining communities from idadu-Agbashi in Doma local government.others are construction of road and drains along orphanage home to link GT bank and jos road in lafia local government.

Almakura have also constructed township road with surface dressing in Awe,construction of township road with surface dressing in Daddare town ,construction of road with earth work from Agyaragu to kwarra town ,provision of community infrastrucural development around Emier palace lafia ,provision of community infrastrucural development at kwandare ,construction of road and drains behind Taal hotel lafia,construction of bridge between kwandare and B.A.D among many other road projects.

In the area of education sen.Almakura have carried out massive constructions of classroom’s,renovations of schools and distributions of educational materials among other educational supports to schools across his senetorial district expanding millions of naira some of the benefited schools includes special schools for disabled,Danka primary school near kwandare,Gidan sule primary school Kadarko,Asha primary school Azara among many others.

He has also carried out massive distributions of transformers,integrated, street lights,singing of boreholes and other infrastructures to various communities health needs of his people received deserving attention which led to constructions ,upgrading and equipping of hospitals,clinics ,construction of primary health care centre in Doma and other parts of the senatorial district as well as distributions of Agricultural inputs and chemicals to farming population in Doma,keana,lafia,obi and Awe.

Just 3 months after his election Almakura lunched his first empowerment programme with distributions of grinding machines,sewing machines,generating sets and other empowerment tools to women and youths in his senatorial district aimed at tackling the challenges of poverty and unemployment which was also followed with distributions of another set of generating sets to second and third class traditional rulers in the zone as well as community leaders in the zone to enabled them carried out enlightenment campaigns on the effects of covid19 in their various communities.

His other achievements includes distributions of covid 19 palliative to all the 5 local governments in the senatorial district,special empowerment programme for people leaving with disabilities,distributions of food items ,financial supports to his constituency, entrepreneurship training for women and youths in obi,capacity building for women and youths in Doma among many other lives saving interactions and useful projects in his senatorial district.

Even as this have further endeared him to the hearts of his people who saw the need to return him to the National Assembly for the second term to enable him continued with his good work of serving humanity forcing those who initially wanted to contest against him for the senatorial ticket of APC in Nasarawa south to perish their ambition to enable him go unopposed where he has since emerged as the party flag bearer even before primaries awaiting for the General election.

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