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Those of us who took it upon themselves to
write in supports of your government policies through the print media
and websites, graciously made available to us free of charge in the last
four years will like to assure you that, as from May 29th,
2007 to the end of your second tenure insha Allah using the same medium,
the tones of our write-ups will change significantly from that of total
support to that of constructive criticism; since all your usual
traducers are effectively neutralized and therefore very scanty if any
opposition balderdash will be targeted at you and your policies to
warrant any defense. We (Kano Electorates) will therefore criticize you
whenever you err, in order to ensure that the expectations of the
electorates are realized.
In the meantime, we must give glory to
Allah (swt) the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, the all conquering Supreme
Being who give power to whosoever he wished, and confiscate it likewise
from whosoever he willed. Glory is to you for actualizing our dreams,
because we know that, without your support we wouldn’t have broken the
so-called Jinx. Glory is to you or Allah, for shaming all the
retrogressive elements within the state and beyond who never wished our
state success. Glory is to you for answering our prayer in the face of
seemingly insurmountable huddles placed by the opposition’s elements.
It is imperative for you to reflect about
the issues of the past four years and begin to think about possible
actions that will hopely led to a better, more purposeful tenure in the
coming years ahead. Certainly you have a date with history, you can not
afford to fail and the masses expect your name to be written in gold.
While the electorates are highly
sympathetic to you in spite of the mistakes recorded, during your first
tenure, due to unnecessary distractions, which emanated mostly from the
selfish TBO members, internal dissention from within the party, PDP
Wahala, the menace of a former minister with access to the corridor of
power at the centre who did everything humanly possible to truncate your
government covertly and overtly without success. This time around the
story has to be different as the masses are not likely going to be as
sympathetic as they were in the first tenure; because you have every
opportunity to actualize your dreams without lets or hindrance from any
quarter,
The masses have complained severally that,
your government was unnecessarily soft and lenient in calling a spade a
spade. It condoned high-handedness of most of its political appointees;
it failed to check the well recorded financial in propriety of the local
government chairmen and some of your commissioners. It shows an uncommon
tolerance to all the absurdities and atrocities committed by the
oppositions. It failed terribly to put a full stop to the libelous
slander and un-mitigated lies labeled against it by the oppositions
through a private radio station which is incidentally based in Kano.
Sir, our expectations from May 29th
are indeed very high, because we are conscious of the fact that, the
amount of money accruing to the state from the federation account has
almost tripled what you used to received previously due to our recent
success in the last census which placed Kano as the most populous state
and by virtue of which our revenue earning raised up tremendously. There
is also no backlog of pensioner’s entitlement to be settled; neither do
you have any un-paid arrears for our civil servants, though we did not
begrudged them for their unusual luck in the last couple of years,
having exhausted their energy to the service of our beloved state, we
wish henceforth, to have a very strong policy redirection toward the
ordinary people.
We expect greater emphasis on the
development of the rural areas, since in the first tenure, most of our
rural towns and villages were neglected. We desire to see you appoint
and fire any non-cooperative political appointees no-matter how highly
placed and connected. The situation were a political appointees will be
caught red handed in a shoddy deals and all what we hear from you was
Allah ya Isa or there is no concrete evidence, is quit disheartening to
say the least (with apology) and has to give way to a more
drastic measures which will served as a deterrence to any future
wrongdoers. We will also like your government to limit the FREEDOM
of some partisan Electronic media outfits that have clearly crossed the
bounds of ethical journalistic practices; as experience has shown that,
no state executive in the thirty five states of the federation plus the
FCT, will tolerates such brazen disregards for decency and decorum.
In the last tenure there was excessive
favoritisms in the spread of projects within the metropolitan local
governments Areas, while some areas got more than what they bargained
for others were unfortunately neglected (e.g. Bawo Road Hausawa Zoo). We
therefore demand justice and equal treatment to all the components part
of our dear State. We also want a complete departure from unnecessary
delay in the executions of capital projects as this caused so many
discomforts to the affected areas.
For your government to records greater
success, efforts should be made to appoint only credible people with
proven track records of achievements and untainted past records, who
share your ideals and are willing to help in the implementation and
ultimate realization of set objectives., because in the first tenure
many characters with varying tendencies were appointed whom at the end
turned out to be Judas Iscariots and fifth columnist; busy sabotaging
the government and divulging some sensitive secrets to the oppositions.
This government has no excuse whatsoever
for failure to surpass its previous achievements, as the masses having
successfully checkmated all the stumbling blocks along the way, by
resisting intimidation, blackmail and relentless propaganda from the
oppositions, and also, having singularly ensure your land slides victory
at the polls which gives you a free hand to operates without any
extraneous meddlesomeness, will ensure that, any perceived laxity is
resisted. Sir, we will not hesitate to give your administration the
Kwankwaso treatments should you failed to effect changes in most of the
identified issues above. And while you enjoy our tremendous good will,
we wish Good Luck and a very successful tenure!
Kabiru Inuwa Tsakuwa
Head Boy, Rumfa college class ’90)
Lugbe Village
Airport Road Abuja
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