As Kogi Clocks 31 Clement Ohida Greets Gov. Bello, Citizens
As Kogi state joins its eight other counterparts created in 27 August, 1991, by the then military administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babagida (IBB) to mark her 31 anniversary of creation.
Kogi state Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners ‘NUP,’ Engineer Clement Ohida has felicitated with Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello,his cabinet members,Senior Citizens and the generality of the people of the state
Engineer Clement Ohida in a message of felicitation to the citizens of the state which was made available to Media Houses in Lokoja said its creation far back thirty one year ago is a dream come through for the inhabitants of the old Kabba province who had yearned to have a state of their own.
The state Leader of the Senior Citizens [retirees] who took a clinical assessment of the leaders who were privileged to steer the ship of the state since its creation from retired colonel Zakari Mohammed as the first military administrator and up to the present administration of Governor Yahaya Bello admitted that the hope of the people were restored and rekindled despite of nadir of challenges with the creation of the confluence state.
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He acknowledged the immeasurable inroads of past and present leaders made in the establishment of durable and endurable infrastructural development projects ranging from setting Universities, State of the arts health care facilities, good road network, advancement in primary and secondary Schools, construction of housing estates which spanned across the lengths and breaths of the emerging solid minerals and oil producing rich state.
Engineer Clement Ohida who attributed the tremendous and gargantuan achievements the state and its citizens had recorded and witnessed during the period under reviewed traced it to the peaceful co-existence of the multi-ethnic tribes that decided to co-habit peacefully.
The State of Nigeria Union of Pensioners ‘NUP’ further admonished the citizens to foster Peaceful living with one another, support government policies programmes and contribute their little quotas to the socio-economic growth and development of the state.
”As we commemorates the thirty first anniversary of the creation of our beloved Kogi state all hands must be desk to work together as one people with one destiny to help to catapults our father’s land to an eldorado of sustainable socio-economic growth and advancement’. Ohida further asserted.
