Bauchi Gov Commends AIHS for creating opportunity to discuss issues of National Development, X – Ray Bauchi’s achievements
By Abbas Usman, Bauchi
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has Commended the Africa International Housing Show (AIHS) for its foresight, Commitment and for organizing a forum aimed at sustaining a good opportunity where issues of national development in areas of Housing and development planning in Nigeria are put into focus for discourse and decisions.
Gov Bala Mohammed
Senator Bala Mohammed, gave the Commendation recently in Abuja while speaking as guest speaker at the occasion where he expressed gratitude and appreciation to AIHS for recognising him to serve as Special Guest at “this very important event”.
The Governor who was represented at the occasion by the State Commissioner of Land and Survey, Hon. Abdullahi Mohammed said one of the main policy thrust of the present Government is investing in knowledge-based economy and physical infrastructure development.
He added that the Government is committing huge resources in areas of Housing, Transportation, Power Supply, Water Resources, Sustainable environment and integrated Rural development programmes.
According to the Governor, “Our main thrust is achieving good governance from a Multi facet directions so that, the narratives would be entirely changed from once referred a backward State, to now, one of the shinning examples of those with steady progress on Human and Physical development. The indicators are there vividly speaking in concrete terms”. he said.
“Presently, there is a new Master Plan for the State capital which has outlined targets of aspirations, scaling up to the year 2050. This Plan is being implemented religiously”
He informed that Bauchi Geographic Information Service( BAGIS) is another giant step towards modernizing Land matters, which is also receiving adequate support from the government as a commitment of transforming land administration procedures.
Revealing that, following the discovery of Oil in Bauchi State, businesses are thriving already, things are changing from great to greater position. Bauchi is
recently ranked 6th in the Federation in areas of Ease of doing Business, “this is another landmark achievement from the government following careful implementation of good and attractive economic policies and programmes”.
“In an effort to address Housing problems across the State, the Government in collaboration with Family Homes Fund Ltd, had constructed 2,500 Housing Units across the 6 Emirates of the State” Bala explained .
The governor explained that a new Government House has been provided in a desire to go with the trends of development and modernization. A further push in this direction, new development Plan is on-going towards a provision of new Lay-outs in the GRA area of the State capital for a modern Bauchi City.
Saying, “in the area of township roads, new openings have been provided with new access roads being constructed to open up densely populated areas and the old City residences making movement around the City with much ease and less traffic jam. A total of over 300 KMs of township roads with good drainages have been constructed so far”
Bala Mohammed assured that Government is committed at laying a solid foundation of Modernization, rolling out Programmes to engage the Youth as a step in curtailing rural-urban movement. re-assuring all the Stakeholders and Partners of a sincere commitment for sustainable collaboration.
