APA Governorship Candidate Proffer Means Of Achieving Peace In Kaduna
BY AMOS TAUNA, KADUNA – The gubernatorial candidate of the African People’s Alliance (APA), in Kaduna state, Alhaji Mustapha Othman Bakano, has said that the only way to ensure lasting peace in the state is for the government to put in place a security arrangement that will ensure the welfare of the citizenry.
Bakano said there is the need to first identify the people and get a data management collection that will give a clearer picture of who they are as a people, what they are doing in order to come up with people oriented programmes that will have direct bearing in their lives.
He further said; “The citizens must be taken out of poverty and ensure that they are not hungry by establishing cottage industries in each local government areas in the state to give them a sense of belonging as well as serve as a base of engagement and means of their livelihood.”
The APA governorship candidate, who stated this while speaking with our correspondent, also said that government must be ready to provide the people with some incentives that would take idleness away from their lives by being engaged at all times.
According to him; “Government must look for ways to assist the people in order to engage them into productive ventures that will enhance productivity and take them away from idleness that affects productivity and encourage all forms of social vices in the state.”
Bakano said his party, the APA has a good blueprint for the state that would ensure good governance that will lead to proper understanding, peace, unity and development in the state.
Speaking on the challenges facing the party’s leadership in the state, Bakano said the state chairman of the party, Engr. Idris Musa has been suspended as a result of anti-party activities.
He however said that in spite of the challenges the party is facing, it has announced itself in the state, stressing that financial challenges have affected the party to widen its scope at the ward and the 23 local government areas in the state.
In his words; “Following the good package the party has for the state, if given the mandate, our government will be able to provide hundreds of thousands of jobs for the citizens through the provision of cottage industries that will take away youth and women from idleness.
“We need a conducive environment that we will involve ourselves into meaningful programmes that will give us a sense of belonging and in turn take us out of hunger which l strongly believe is the cause of insecurity in the state.”
