01/09/2025
Sowore, you keep painting Gombe State in black, but anyone who has visited in the last few years knows your narrative is false. The truth is simple: Inuwa Yahaya has changed the story of Gombe.
Gombe today is not the same state it was before 2019. The civil service has been cleaned up with biometric reforms, ghost workers flushed out, and salaries and pensions paid regularly without excuses. Workers enjoy the 71,000 minimum wage, and retirees are no longer abandoned.
You talk about leadership failure, yet local governments in Gombe are functioning with positive balances. Community projects are being funded and supervised without the usual stories of diversion.
Look at the security situation. While many states struggle with unrest, Gombe has remained one of the most peaceful places in the North-East. That did not happen by accident – it happened because of deliberate investment in security architecture and cooperation with communities.
The youth you claim are neglected are the same youths empowered through ICT training, agriculture support programmes, and recruitment into security and traffic agencies like GOSTEC. Thousands have benefitted from these opportunities, not empty promises.
Even in power and energy, Gombe is pushing ahead with solar electrification projects in rural communities, and streetlights in urban centres that have improved safety and business activities at night.
Sowore, you may not like Inuwa Yahaya, but you cannot erase these realities. Criticism is fine, but it must be honest. Gombe is not sinking it is rising, and anyone who doubts it should come and see with their own eyes.