20/12/2024
Gov.Buni Outlines Achievements, Future Plans In End-Of-Year Address
By: Usman Ibrahim Geidam
Governor of yobe state Hon.Mai Mala Buni Delivered
End of the year 2024b press Briefing the members of the journalists today in Damaturu.
Governor Buni's outlined his government’s achievements in various sectors and plans for the future.
Governor Buni represented by his Deputy Idi Barde Gubana commended the government efforts, Dedication and commitment of members of the press, acknowledging their crucial role in educating informing the General public about the state’s activities and progress.
Buni assured them that the government would continue to provide an enabling environment for the media to exercise their duties effectively and efficiently.
He expressed his appreciation to all civil servants and all goverment officials for their contributions to the state’s.
He also said despite economic challenges, the yobe state made significant Progress in Agriculture,
Education, water supply,Healthcare, Road Construction,Electricity among others.
He said that the yobe State won $500,000 in the primary healthcare leadership challenge for states in the North-East sub-region.
The state also achieved 100% payment of hazard allowances and adjusted CONMESS and CONHESS salary scales for healthcare workers” in the state.
“The state launched the largest agricultural empowerment support program, spending N15.3 billion on farm implements and inputs for 5,340 farmers across 178 wards in the state.
The government procured 475 modern sewing and embroidery machines, distributed 350 disability tricycles, and provided cash grants to micro and small entrepreneurs”.
On water supply, he added that the state awarded contracts for the conversion of 170 motorized boreholes to solar systems and drilled boreholes in major towns while on road construction, the government constructed and rehabilitated hundreds of kilometers of roads, including the Damaturu-Kalallawa dual carriage road and the Gujba-Ngalda road.
Buni assured the good people of Yobe State that his government would continue to work towards making life more meaningful for them in 2025 and beyond.
He emphasized the importance of strengthening security and improving the overall well-being of citizens.
The Governor’s address concluded with a call to action for all stakeholders to work together towards the development of Yobe State.
In his welcome address,the Commissioner Ministry of Home Affairs Information and Culture,Abdullahi Bego,
expressed his gratitude to the achievements recorded of the end-of-year press briefing event which take place in Damaturu the state capital.
“On behalf of the management and staff of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Information and culture, I want to express my gratitude to the Executive, Mai Mala Buni CON ably represented by his ever-loyal deputy, Idi Barde Gubana, for his time to grace this wonderful occasion of our state’s end of the year 2025 press and media Briefing.
“This is the Maiden edition as many years that our governor Mai Mala Buni CON himself would avail us the opportunity to organised and address this kind of of events in the state".
“I also want to thank His Excellency for what he continues to do on behalf of the good people of yobe state to advance the causes that his administration always stands for – improving the people’s living conditions; ensuring the protection of lives and property in yobe State.
Your Excellency, Sir ladies and gentlemen, as I welcome you to this executive briefing by Hon.Mai Mala the governor, let me also underscore a fact that we all know about – that throughout history, information is and has always been an indispensable factor in every form of responsible, progressive governance – It’s an important, catalysing factor in political governance, economic governance, security governance.
It is what ensures that no vacuum is allowed between what the government is doing on behalf of the people and what the people know about what the government is doing on their behalf. It builds confidence; it nurtures trust; it strengthens that unbreakable compact between the people and their government.
“It is this nexus – this symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationship – that should provide for a harmonious working relationship between the government and all its branches and the media as the fourth estate of the realm.
On behalf of His Excellency the executive governor and the Yobe State Government, therefore, I want to extend my profound appreciation to the entire membership of Yobe’s media and journalism community for your partnership with the state government over the years and for what you continue to do as stakeholders and active participants in Yobe’s peace, security and prosperity.
“That Yobe State and indeed Nigeria as a whole cannot thrive and make any meaningful progress without peace and security and the participation of all citizens requires that the media always focuses attention on what brings the people together rather than what sets them apart.
It follows, as a corollary, that media professionals, therefore, have a duty and an obligation to produce content that promotes the peace, security and development of our state as a major plank of their editorial and journalistic exertions.
“Thankfully, this is something that members of the press community here are already doing and that I am confident they will continue to do.
