Tinubu: Yobe Residents, CSOs Urge Incoming Administration To Rebuild A State Broken By Insecurity

As the president elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to take charge of the presidency on the 29th of this month, people of Yobe State and the Network of the State Civil Society Organisation (NYCSO), have appealed for more infrastructural facilities as well as agricultural and educational support for the enhancement of economic transformation.

Some residents who spoke to me said being a state picking up its broken pieces from the devastating effects of the Boko Haram insurgency, Yobe State deserved special attention from the Tinubu administration in the areas of infrastructural development, education and agricultural transformation as he promised during the electioneering campaign at the state.

 Mohammed Baba in Damaturu, Mahmud Abdullahi from Nguru local governments as well as Mohammed Ibrahim of Bursari local government, all stressed the need for more emphasis by the Tinubu administration on the above stated needs, to include power supply and economic support for the people of the state.

In a chat with me, the resident said, “As a state coming out of the shackles of the Boko Haram insurgency, we need the incoming president to prioritise the provision of more infrastructure such as roads among other structures, power supply for economic rejuvenation and agricultural support for many of us who are farmers and cattle rearers.

“We have suffered enough from the decade-old insurgency and the only way to get back our losses is by: getting our children educated, the revival of a true not political agricultural value chain, constant and affordable power supply in addition to the provision of basic infrastructure, especially roads among other social amenities,” they opined.

The executive director of the Network of the Yobe State Civil Society Organisation (NYCSO), Comrade Alhaji Baba Shehu, while commenting appealed for emphasis on youth empowerment as a remedy to unemployment and restiveness. 

Shehu equally stressed the need for the exploration of the potential natural and agricultural resources that abound in Yobe State for effective economic transformation.

“Yobe is among the states that is recovering from the effects of the insurgency, meaning we are on post-insurgency situation. We need lots of support from the federal government for the state to recover.

But apart from basic education which is key for liberation, exploration of the abundant mineral natural resources such as gypsum among others, as well as support to rural farmers for rain and irrigation farming in the state, will go a long way enhancing the living condition of our people.

 “Here in Yobe State, we need a more robust and genuine youth empowerment programme from the federal and state governments, that will help make our younger ones graduating from tertiary institutions every year, to be self reliant so as to reduce the rate of youth restiveness which has played a vital role in the insecurity we find ourselves.”