The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Saturday, declared to the people of Dekina Local Government Area that the rehabilitation of Dekina-Shintaku road is a task that must be carried out by his administration.
The Governor assured the people that he would be satisfied if the rehabilitation of the Dekina-Shintaku road would be the only achievement of his administration.
The deplorable condition of the road was what cut out the council headquarters from the mainstream economic activities of the country since the 1970s.
The Governor was travelling on the road to the area for the first since he emerged as the state governor to receive the over two thousand people who dropped their membership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Bello who gave this assurance while receiving the defectors before a crowd of APC loyalists in the ancient town described the state of the road as deplorable.
He condemned the past administrations in the state for neglecting the road and the people of Bassa and Dekina Local Governments, reiterating that his administration must rehabilitate the road in the interests of the people.
“While travelling on the road to Dekina, I told myself that people are very wicked. I wondered how local government that had their own son as governor could be abandoned without basic infrastructures. It is unfortunate,” he said.
The Governor said he would develop the local government to reciprocate the love the people have for him, adding that “the people voted for me without knowing me. During the supplementary election, you voted for me against your own son. The love shown to me by Dekina people has made me to feel at home. I am the son of the soil,” he said.
“What you voted for are pipe-borne water, good roads, schools, electricity, healthcare facilities and security. These are the things you must have during my administration,” he said.
Earlier, Governor Bello, who visited the Ejeh of Dekina to officially announce his presence in the town, told the paramount ruler that he would not leave his office as the Governor of Kogi State without leaving indelible marks of development in the Local Government Area.
“In no distant future the suffering of your people would come to an end,” he averred.
He granted all the request made by the Ejeh by promising to construct Dekina township roads and to provide the people with pipe-borne water.
The paramount ruler thanked the Governor for the ongoing work on the Shintaku-Gboloko-Dekina-Ayingba road, and the work on the connection of electricity from Ogbabo, Udachi through Abocho to Ajiyolo.
In the same vein, the Chief of Staff to the Kogi State Governor, Hon Edward Onoja who also spoke at the occasion assured the people of Governor Bello’s commitment to ensure that work on the road is complete within the time frame.
“Work on the road is being hastened by the contractor for vehicular traffic to return to it as soon as possible, so that the former Governor (Wada) from here could use the road whenever he is coming home. With that he will understand how government is run for the good of the people,” he said.
