Letter to governor of Yobe State

With regard and salutation, may I use this means to write this open letter to you. In this tough time of global health and humanitarian crisis, inflation as well as economic hardship and insecurity, the people of Yobe State need your special sympathy and compassion.

Your development ideas and achievements as a governor is worth celebrating. Your administration revived our hope for the better Yobe of our dream.

The recent depletion of workers’ salary from the current minimum wage to the previous minimum wage system, particularly local government employees and many more junior staff call for your concern.

Amid this sorrowful condition, the students of Yobe State University Damaturu, got their own shocker through the new registration bill that increased their registration fee with 37.5 percent of their stable registration fee.

The saddest part of this situation is that the deduction affects all and sundry, including the health personnel and primary school teachers.

Students are also crying for payment of their stipend scholarship which they applied for through remittance of N500 via RRR to the state government last year.

A midwife serving in a rural area said that about 12 midwives were set to vacate their duty posts in the villages in search of better niches to improve their living conditions.

If they do, maternal-related cases such as morbidity and mortality will increase.

We appeal to Mr Governor to help look into this.

Ali Tijjani Hassan wrote in from Potiskum