Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai yesterday said he has fulfilled all the electoral promises he made to the people.
The governor said this in a state-wide broadcast to mark his two years in office.
“In the last two years, we have done as
we have promised. We have steadily implemented the Restoration
Programme. No segment of our campaign platform has been left untouched,”
he said.
The governor said despite recruiting
over 7000 personnel within the last two years, the state’s 2016
recurrent expenditures showed a N5bn reduction in personnel cost to
N21.8bn from N26.8bn in 2015.
He said in 2016, the Kaduna State
government raised N23bn as taxes, levies and interest earnings,
describing it as the highest ever in the history of the state.
In education, the governor said his
administration raised primary school enrolment from 1.1m in July 2015 to
2.1m by September 2016, adding that 29% more students sat for WAEC in
2016 than in 2015.
“We renovated 400 of the 4250 public
primary schools in the state before we decided to move to a programme of
school reconstruction to accommodate the growth in population.
“We have broadened access, improved
teacher quality and enhanced school facilities. We are emphatic that
basic education shall remain free for the first nine years. We abolished
levies, provided uniforms and fed 1.5m pupils every school day from
January to July 2016. And to further expand access, we have passed a law
to abolish street trading and hawking,” he said.
On health, the governor said he had
pledged to improve access to healthcare and to improve health outcomes
for people and has done so, adding that his government has secured
accreditation for Barau Dikko Hospital as a teaching hospital while the
Doka hospital on the Abuja-Kaduna Road is being transformed into a
trauma centre.
On infrastructure, the governor said his
government is fixing 414km of intracity roads, while over 2500 solar
street lights have been installed.
The governor said this is in addition to
encouraging farmers in the state through several initiatives. He said
the security situation in southern Kaduna has improved.
El-Rufai said in the remaining two
years, his administration will be initiating the BRT scheme, complete
more water projects, build and equip more schools, strengthen the health
sector, build more modern markets and neighbourhood centres and
activate more of the investment projects.
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