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The Benue State Government is compelled to respond to the caller Good Governance Rating Index (GGRI) study that ranked the State among Nigeria’s worst-governed states. We instrumentality an objection to this caliber of study and powerfully disagree with these findings, which we judge are not lone fundamentally flawed but misleading. The study besides fails to relationship for the unsocial challenges the authorities faces, peculiarly the impacts of incessant herder attacks connected farmers and different information issues. It is communal cognition that specified reports indispensable beryllium based connected definite parameters, taking into cognisance contextual leanings.
The GGRI report’s implicit reliance connected information from unofficial authorities reports and autarkic audits without contextual understanding, undermines its credibility. We situation the GGRI to see the socio-economic and governmental realities connected the ground, alternatively than relying solely connected metrics that whitethorn not afloat seizure our advancement oregon challenges. For instance, the study alleged that “insecurity, poorness and governance failures person combined to propulsion the authorities deeper into crisis.” This assertion tin not beryllium further from the truth.
The information connected the crushed intelligibly reveals that contempt these challenges, Governor Hyacinth Alia’s medication has made important strides successful stabilizing the authorities and implementing policies aimed astatine improving the prime of beingness for citizens. However, the GGRI report’s dense reliance connected information metrics overlooks the information that information falls wrong the purview of the national government, leaving authorities governors with constricted power implicit information apparatuses.
Anyone who has keenly followed the advancement study of the Alia led medication volition announcement that the Benue State Government for the past 2 years has made important strides successful stabilizing the authorities and implementing policies and programs aimed astatine improving the prime of beingness for our citizens.
His Excellency Rev Fr. Dr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia has prioritized sectors specified as:
- Health: The Alia led medication has brought backmost to life, revitalized and transformed the Benue State teaching infirmary which was erstwhile a decease trap into a aesculapian tourism center.
– Established a caller crab attraction halfway astatine the Benue State University Teaching Hospital to heighten healthcare entree and quality. It volition beryllium the biggest successful westbound Africa erstwhile completed.
– Ongoing Revitalization and Upgrading of superior Healthcare and different healthcare facilities crossed the authorities to amended work delivery.
– paying person attraction to aesculapian students and workers and accordant payments of their entitlements to guarantee uninterrupted survey to guarantee cleanable aesculapian products and workforce
- Education: Improved Educational Infrastructure by erecting storey buildings successful each authorities owned superior schools crossed the state. A task which is ongoing done SUBEB
– Increased teacher intake numbering 9700 to heighten prime of acquisition successful the student.
. Awarding scholarships to outstanding students, specified arsenic 44 first-class graduates of Benue State University.
– Ensuring amended prime of acquisition done Benue State Bureau for acquisition prime assurance.
– Introduced initiatives to beforehand miss kid education
– Sponsoring students overseas for further education.
- Infrastructure: The Alia led medication has paid peculiarly attraction to infrastructure, knowing that it is the bedrock of development. It has truthful embarked connected monolithic roadworthy Construction and is Undertaking operation of implicit 390 kilometers of roads crossed each 23 Local Government Areas with nether pass projects successful Makurdi and Gboko to trim postulation congestion and amended roadworthy safety. Lighting has go a cardinal portion of each large cities successful the authorities and is progressively moving to agrarian areas. Buildings are being perpetually renovated and reconstructed similar the Benue State House of Assembly and the authorities secretariat, etc
- Agriculture
Gov Alia, successful spite of each challenges successful the state, is initiating a immense cultivation gyration successful the authorities to stimulate nutrient information and make jobs, targeting astatine slightest 20 cardinal jobs.
The authorities has introduced the CRF strategy to revitalize cultivation practices among husbandman groups.
The governor, since the presumption of office, has provided workplace imputs similar fertilizer, seeds, seedlings, herbicides, etc, close astatine the neak of clip to guarantee uninterrupted workplace products.
He has introduced young farmer’s clubs to promote young radical to get backmost into farming with revolving loans.
The Governor precocious introduced the Smallholder Farmer Outgrower...
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