December 23, 2024

New Year: We will do more in human capital Development – Gov Bello

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has promised that his administration in the New Year would give more attention to human capital development by investing more in training our people for enhanced relevance in a technologically evolving future.

This was contained in the Governor’s New Year message to indigenes and residents of Kogi State, made available Wednesday morning.

The Governor felicitated with the people for witnessing the year 2020, while he thanked God for keeping their lives till such moment while he similar remembered those who were deceased.

Governor Bello affirmed that 2019 would be remembered as the year the people were united like never before to break down the strong barriers of ethnicity, religion and class differentiation which divided the state for so long and slowed our progress.

He opined that these walls of partition were built and patronised in the past and engendered discrimination as they were also used to make sure that a man’s merit took a back seat to parochial and unprofitable considerations and were cogs in the wheels of our advancement as a state.

He pointed out that the choices in the 2019 General Elections and in the November 16 Kogi State Gubernatorial Elections were direct answers to long-standing existential questions about the direction our state would take as we move into a rapidly changing future.

Governor Bello thanked the people of the state for making him the arrowhead of a new era in which Igala, Ebira, Okun and all the other ethnic nationalities in Kogi State proved that tribe, religion and class cannot be the worth of a man noting that the people have heralded the New Kogi to bequeath to posterity as one characterised by equity and justice, unity, peace and progress

The governor asserted that 2020 would be new beginning for the state and people, promising that his administration would have as its principal preoccupation bringing a revitalised energy to bear in delivering refocused governance in Kogi State for the next four years.

He stated that the administration through the help of God Almighty and the continued patience and support would continually address all of the issues including insecurity, infrastructural decay, prompt payment of emoluments to civil servants, problems of unemployment, healthcare and education, among others.

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