Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has attributed the present economic woes of the country and the state to lack of developmental foresight on the part of past leaders at various levels.
The governor spoke in Lokoja at the 25th anniversary of the creation of the state. Bello, who admitted that Kogi State had not attained a level befitting of a 25-yearold state, lamented that despite the huge natural and human resources, the state had been underdeveloped as a result of lack of visionary leaders.
“The painful thing is that Kogi State did not join the league of visionary states. We seemed unable to find leaders who love Kogi above self, family and friends. Thus successive administrations posted lackluster performances, leading to severe underdevelopment of the state and increased poverty among our people. “If they had been merely incompetent, their failures would not have been so terrible.
Instead, they added corruption and criminality to the mix. Simply put, some of our past leaders were utterly godless. They stole us blind,” he stressed. According to him, he in-herited a state on the verge of collapse, a condition he likened to the whole country which was on ‘Intensive Care Unit,’ until President Muhammadu Buhari was elected to salvage the situation.
He averred that the ‘Change,’ which swept the nation with the election of President Buhari had presented Kogi State with an opportunity to reinvent itself and make great strides, adding that Mr. President’s commitment to the ‘Change Agenda’ in Nigeria has provided a model for positive development with probity and accountability as driving principles.
The governor emphasised that the people-centred New Direction Agenda of his administration anchored on five thematic areas of Education, Health, Job Creation and New Ventures, Infrastructure and Utilities, and Productive Public Service and Pension Reforms, were meant to have direct positive bearing on people of the state.
In a related development, the governor donated about 140 patrol vans and more than 1,000 motorcycles to various security agencies in the state in order to boost their operational efficiency in the task of maintaining security.
While receiving the vehicles on behalf of other security outfits, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, described the gesture as unprecedented in the history of the state.
Idris, who noted that activities of criminal elements had been reduced drastically since the inception of the present administration, said the feat was achieved as a result of collaboration and renewed commitment of the state government.



https://newtelegraphonline.com/bello-blames-past-leaders-kogis-woes/

I AM LAUGHING AND STILL LAUGHING.

THE BLAME GAME HAS STARTED. THIS IS A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF A GOVERNOR THAT IS DESTINED TO FAIL. WAS HE NOT ELECTED TO PUT THINGS IN ORDER? DID HE NOT CAMPAIGN THAT HE WILL MAKE KOGI A STATE TO RECKON WITH? KOGI PEOPLE SHOULD START ATTACKING HIM NOW, IF NOT, HIS GOVT WILL NOT DO ANYTHING MEANINGFUL TILL THEY LEAVE POWER.

Aaaaaaaaah blaming me others for lack of Ideas and innovation to turn things around.

The average northern polithiefcian mentality.

Capability or not is not an issue, only money and power.

Restructure Nigeria now or be forever doomed.

How I wish the GHOST that slap OKOROCHA to also slap this YAHAYA BELLO, so as to put some sense into his brain