Niger SDP Chides Gov Bago Over Abandoned CNG Buses

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Niger State has chided Governor Umaru Mohammed Bago for allegedly abandoning over 250 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses purchased three years ago.

LEADERSHIP reported that the governor purchased 200 CNG buses to mitigate the effect of fuel subsidy removal and since then the buses haven’t been put into full use.

The party in a statement by the spokesperson of governorship campaign council, Hon. Jonathan Vatsa in Minna yesterday, said over three years now after the buses were procured by the governor to ease transportation burden on the masses following the removal of fuel subsidy, they have been abandoned to waste away.

According to him, “what can the governor tell the people of this state as to the reason for allowing those buses that were purchased with the state resources to waste away at the trade fair complex”

“For over three years now these buses were left at the trade fair complex rotting away with all the important parts and components vandalised.These buses which were acquired through loan were meant to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal on the citizen but unfortunately this is the faith that has befell the buses” he added.

The former commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism in the state maintained that the government owed the people explanation.

Vatsa therefore stated that “In 2027, the people of this great state have a choice to make, either to remain stagnant with abandoned projects steering in their faces, and unpayable loans or choose the pact of progress”.

He claimed that , government projects undertaken by the administration have all been left in the state of incompletions for lack of funds despite the unprecedented resources from the federation account.