… lauds Gov. Abdulrasaq leadership style

By Abdul Momoh

The Director of Personnel Management (DPM), Moro Local Government, Mallam Amuda Musbau has described the face-lift and positive turn around experienced in Kwara State under the leadership of Governor AbdulRasaq AbdulRaman as a new dawn.

He stated this during a briefing with newsmen in his office, recently.

According to him, ‘Kwara State has not had it this great since it’s creation judging from the paste of development witnessed in the recent time’.

“This is a new Kwara we have been yearning for. It is indeed a new dawn in Kwara. The performance of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq across every facets has been commendable and convincing.

“When the struggle started, many of us were skeptical about him giving the fact that he is coming from the private sector as those that came before him were also from the private sector, they came and bastardized everything.

“But the Governor has convinced us. He has came to do what exactly he envisioned. He has embarked on projects across the state”, Amuda said.

Continuing, the head of administration in Moro LGA said Governor AbdulRasaq has come to do what Kwarans wanted him to do describing him as the architect of a new Kwara who has brought in a responsible governance in sharp deviation from what the state was known for before.

He added that the Governor in the last one year had performed well and has also exhibited a stringent fiscal discipline in the state.

“Hjke has been able to convinced the people of Kwara State and I wish he continue like this. In the next two to three years, I think there won’t be any opposition in Kwara,” he stressed.

Amuda spoke further that Moro Local Government has remodelled it’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) so as to meet up with capital projects across the Local Government Area.

“When we came in, there was this issue of stagnant IGR problem. What we did was to conform with technocrats in the field to boost our revenue. We disengaged the contractors that were handling it before. We have committed our staffs to make the collections easier. Now we are not an indebted council.

“However, we puts up a mini poultry system and we have had the first production, the sales was okay. The profit margin is commendable, all in the effort to increase our IGR.

“We have also raised our healthcare services too, ditto our traditional leader were well treated. We also engaged the stakeholders in the security sector all in a bit to maintains peace and orders.”

Reacting to the issues of joint account by the local government which was the practise before this administration, Amuda said there is nothing like that again as LGs now get their allocation directly from the federation accounts.

“Yes, the issue has been solved. There is nothing like joint account again, we called it Local Government Account which is directly from the federal government.

” The priority of the Kwara State Government is to pay salary, and as soon as we received our allocation we pays. As soon as we sits for allocation committee meeting, the second day, all our staff gets alerts,” the DPM said.

He however said the challenges before the local government has been the finance as a result of the global economic depression.

“The challenges we had are the problems common to everybody which is finance. All the LGAs today receive their allocation from the federation account. 

“This present Government in Kwara has been so magnanimous to the fact that whatever acquirable to the local government from the federal account is given to us without any deduction unlike what we had before this government.

“The Kwara State Government has encouraged us to pay based on the power of each local government and in a situation where there is an excesses after the mandatory expenditure, we have a consolidation account where we drop the excesses to safe for the raining days,”.

Amuda used the medium to commend the performance of Moro Local Government’s contingents at the 7th Kwara Sports Festival.

“We’re impressed by the performance of our contingents. We came 5th in ranking. We were able to discovered new talents as one of them has been signed by a club outside Nigeria,” he concluded.

  Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, Kwara State, Moro LGA, Musbau Amuda