Our enemy of the state
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After many months of Filibustering by Senator Shehu Sani’s Committee, the Senate has finally (albeit without justifiable reasons) disapproved the $350m budget support facility granted to Kaduna State by the World Bank.
Is that the end of life for us, good people of Kaduna? Certainly no. Kaduna shall rise and prosper, Governor El-Rufai will surely fulfill his promises, (as can be seen by simple glimpse of our sectorial histogram, that we reached 70% completion in all aspects) the Kaduna restoration master plan will continue as planned. Our Kaduna will be great again in spite of Shehu Sani’s ignoble role. It will never in any way deter our state from the paths of transformation. As we can see, long time ago Governor El-Rufai has since explored other ways of continuing with the development works for which purpose the $350 Million loan was earlier being sought for. But let’s ponder!
It is well-known that the main purpose for seeking this loan by governor Elrufai was to build schools, hospitals, roads etc. So this singular act of Shehu Sani implies that he’d rather our children don’t get a decent public education as espoused by the governor, he’d rather our kids thrown back to the streets, he rather our women and children don’t get access to good health facilities; and he’d rather that our state remains underdeveloped. This is the height of meanness by the man who claimed to be pro poor. The senate’s rejection of our loan request, orchestrated by Shehu Sani, has conspicuously revealed his true color as the greatest enemy of Kaduna state and her people.
But that is the irony and one of the pitfalls SAK. If not for the SAK syndrome, Senator Shehu Sani would never have been in the Chamber today. This is the man who rode to Senate on the coattails of PMB, El-Rufai and most importantly on the popular will of the people, but has now sacrificed the lives of not only his constituents but the entire lives of Kaduna people on the altar of politics. This is unbecoming of a man who professed progressive. Whatever it is between you and the governor, you can’t thwart state’s efforts to actualize her desires for bringing concrete development to the people of the state. You can’t put the lives of more than 12 million people on the line just because you want to settle scores with the governor.
Kaduna state is one, and the general interest of her people should trumps individual interest at all times. No matter the political differences, no matter what; the general interests of the citizenry must be the first consideration of each and every person that occupies the position of authority in the name of the state. Just because the Senator is begrudging the governor, and just because he bears ill-will towards Dr. Uba Sani, (the Political Adviser to the governor) we the people of the state, the ultimate beneficiaries of this loan would be at the receiving end.
I am making a clarion call to the people of zone two senatorial district to not only read a riot act to the man who toyed with their lives because of his personal politics, but to send him into oblivion by voting him out next year. A man who did nothing for them apart from commissioning borehole, and become a caricature of frivolities is now working hard to stop developmental projects from reaching them.
Mukhtar Garba Maigamo, Special Assistant the Governor of Kaduna State on Public Affairs to