Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state in an interaction with journalists speaks on the preparedness of the state for the November 11, 2023 off-cycle governorship election and sundry issues. The occasion was the 3rd Annual GYB Seminar for Nigeria’s Political and Crime Correspondents/Editors. EMEKA NZE reports.Your Excellency, you know that poverty and unemployment are major causes of insecurity, have there been deliberate measures aimed at tackling these menace in your state?
Compendium and website, make a research of your own and see the various efforts we made to ensure that there is employment and reduction of poverty. Both our online referal compendulium and websites, these things can be made available for you. I want to assure you, since I came on board, we have employed more than the previous administrations put together. We have reduced poverty more than the previous administrations put together. We ensured that those unintended beneficiaries who have been taking our resources are completely removed from our payroll thereby making resources available for us. In fact, we made more millionaires in this regime than the previous regimes put together, by way of empowering them and teaching them how to fish, not necessarily giving them fish or opening the vault of resources of the state to any individual.
