INSECURITY : PDP A DISAPPOINTMENT ON THE PLATEAU

PRESS  STATEMENT 30/5/24

 INSECURITY : PDP A DISAPPOINTMENT ON THE PLATEAU.

It is no longer news, that the PDP led government has failed  woefully, in protecting lives and property of the very people that voted it into office.

Not only that, peace, commerce and particularly agricultural activities in the agrarian areas, are now best imagined than real.

Although the security challenges predate the present administration,the situation deteriorated rapidly and almost became  uncontrollable, under the now PDP government.

 Painfully, almost on a monthly basis, mass graves are dug; new IDP camps established;  people maimed and children stopped from going to School, as a result of the rampaging activities of terrorists in the State.

It is therefore not surprising that the Transparency International came out with a damning report a fortnight ago, that over 1330 persons were murdered by terrorists between December 2023 and February 2024.

According to the TI , the victims who were mostly from Mangu, Bokkos, Barakinladi local government areas, and of late Wase, have 13,093 children and 16,461 women presently in the IDP camps

Sadly, the number of losses in three months under the present administration, is more than what happened during the eight years, of the Lalong government.

That is not all, a group, which calls itself a coalition of ethnic nationalities, stated that bandits are presently occupying 151 hamlets, villages and communities in Plateau State.

At a press conference in Jos a few days ago, the group expressed disappointment with the level of what it described as the level of government response to the plight of the victims of illegal occupation and land grabbing.

Ironically, the PDP during the electioneering campaigns, promised to defend and secure the State,by using different approaches,such as the Operation Rainbow framework, community vigilantism and empowering local communities, deploying cutting edge technology,and combatting marauders. See calebmutfwang.org

However, the PDP after taking over the mantle of leadership, probably for lack of will power, failed to actualise it's promise,except the employment of 600  in the State's security outfit, as claimed by governor Mutfwang in his State wide Radio and Television broadcast to celebrate his one year in office.

Without politicising  the issue, from all indications,the government had not been forthcoming, decisive, as well as methodological in handling the security lapses and breaches in the State.

The PDP needs to re-strategize and overhaul the security architecture with a view to giving the people a sense of protection and peace in the State.

       Signed

Shittu  Bamaiyi

Acting Publicity Secretary.

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PDP GOVERNMENT'S 365 DAYS OF HOPELESSNESS.

PRESS STATEMENT 29/5/24

 ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS

 PLATEAU STATE CHAPTER

 KALWA HOUSE

 YAKUBU GOWON WAY

 JOS.

 PDP GOVERNMENT'S 365  DAYS OF HOPELESSNESS.

Today, marks exactly one year in office, of the PDP led administration under the leadership of Governor Caleb Mutfwang.

This  morning, in a fourteen minute Radio and Television broadcast to commemorate the day, the governor repeated virtually all what the MDA's flaunted as the government's so called achievements without any expenditure profile during their respective media briefings a fortnight ago.

As a matter of fact the hallmarks or take-aways of the governor's speech were wishful thinking and prayers.

This at all, did not disappoint majority of the people, since many had anticipated the outcomes, based on the government's confused policies and programmes.

For the rational minds that did not vote the PDP in the 2023 governorship election, it is a vindication of their well considered sense of judgements for holding the premonition of the Party's lack of articulate policy and programmes to steer the ship of affairs of the State.

And true to type, the PDP has clearly demonstrated to the worrying citizens of the State, that is incapable of providing what it had promised them during the electioneering campaigns, hence the unproductive and dismal performance in the last one year.

Regrettably, even the hope and aspirations of the worshipful supporters of the PDP look dashed, with the long faces they wear and the withdrawal syndrome that has befallen them.

Obviously, the PDP led government seems to be wise by half, in  capitalising on religiosity and also associating with the proponents of the Karl Marx maxim, which states that 'Religion is the opium of the people'.

The planned prayer sessions by the two major religions are deliberately aimed at shoving support for the government, which from all indications are dead on arrival.

As a matter of fact, the people are now wiser, and so no amount of shenanigans or religious manipulation would change the narrative that the PDP government has under performed, and as such, owes the citizens of the State explanation, on the unprecedented humongous FAAC allocations and the bizarre borrowings during the period under review.

It is shameful and unheard of, that a government which held sway for year, could not show any reasonable thing, except rhetorics and hysteresis.

While other States of the federation are busy commissioning or flagging projects, ours are the erection of bill boards and sponsored radio as well as Television jingles, heralding the one year in office of the PDP led administration .

Be that as it may,now that the governor has spoken and also provoked conversation, it would be a total disservice if critical analysis as well as interrogation of the PDP led government performance is not carried out by well meaning citizens and the opposition parties in subsequent days. 

           Signed

Shittu Bamaiyi

Acting Publicity Secretary.

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PRESS STATEMENT BY THE ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS PLATEAU STATE.

PRESS STATEMENT 27/5/24.

 ALL PROGRESSIVES

ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS, PLATEAU STATE CHAPTER KALWA HOUSE YAKUBU GOWON WAY, JOS.

 PDP GOVERNMENT : ITS LATE, THE TIME IS NOT NOW.

Over the weekend, the Plateau State Government through the Secretary to the Government, Architect Samuel Jatau tearfully and sorrowfully too, said the Mutfwang administration is in dire financial stress as a result of heavy debt burden.

The SGS, revealed on a National Television, that the PDP government monthly, doles out ₦250 million to service debt inherited from the  administrations.

The question is, why the outcry at this particular time,? Could it be that the government is overwhelmed or is stocked and bereft of ideas on the way forward?

Whatever the wailing means, it could be strategic, and also a smokescreen aimed at winning the people's sympathy as well as serve as an excuse for the government's non-performance in the past 365 days.

Suffice it to say that, the issue of debt servicing should not be an excuse, because the PDP was not unaware of the debt profile of the State, when it claimed during the campaigns, that it possessed the magic wand of making the Plateau, better than it met it.

Although this intervention reluctantly put across, should not have come now in the first place in view of the much anticipated Governor Mutfwang's speech of the first year in office, comes up in a matter of days.

Therefore, this thesis is just a response to the  SGS's inchoate explanation of the debt profile of the State, which with  all seriousness, should not go unchallenged.

To put things in proper perspective,  it is imperative to start from where the PDP government took off, in terms of financial disposition, what it met on the ground, and the  governor's official trajectory vis-a-vis his campaign manifesto, tagged " The time is now."

As a starter, the governor when taking off, after receiving the Professor Ganyir Lombin Committee report in June 2023, stated that he inherited a liability of three hundred and seven billion naira from the Lalong administration, which from documentary evidence was not true.

The Debt Management Office, the statutory body with authentic information on the indebtedness of all states of the federation, officially revealed that as of December 2023, Plateau State was indebted to the tune of ₦157,615,986,155.32 only. This disclosure debunked the PDP government's assertion.

The Debt Management Office then went further to reveal that the PDP government within a span of three months, June to December last year, increased the debt profile of the State to ₦174.93 billion, an increase of 16.31 billion naira.

This clearly shows that, rather than managing the debt and looking inward as enunciated in its campaign manifesto, the government embarked on a borrowing spree with disproportionate outcomes.

Aside from the borrowings, the government is reported to have generated an Internal Revenue of ₦10,841,250,482.37 not to mention other interventions.

More important, is FAAC allocation which stands ₦97,531,140,757.25 as against ₦34,133,327,206.78, the Lalong administration collected in a year.

It therefore follows that the Mutfwang's government enjoyed an increase of ₦63,397,813,551.07  over that of its predecessor. This marked difference is without special intervention funds, loans, and grants as sourced from http://www.nigeriastat.gov.ng.

Given the foregoing, it is absurd and unacceptable for the PDP to begin to cry wolf when it has added more to the debt profile of the State without any corresponding impact on the lives of the people of Plateau State.

Signed:

Shittu Bamaiyi,

Acting Publicity Secretary.

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