Embrace NOT-IN-MY-STATE-MOVEMENT- Kogi Govt

The Kogi State Government has urged citizens to subscribe to the NOT-IN-MY-STATE Movement against violence protests.

A statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Femi Fanwo in Abuja, says a protest will have been proper if the government was making no efforts.

“Protests would have been popular if the efforts were not bearing fruits yet. Protests would have been understandable if we were not gradually moving out of the hopeless situation. But a protest at this point is an attack on the foundation of our rebuilding process and an attempt to throw the nation into the darkness orchestrated during the EndSars destruction and carnage” Fanwo stresses.

It adds that the Government of Kogi State has thrown its weight in solidarity with efforts at the centre and sub-national levels to put the economy of the nation on the right track.

“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is working assiduously to get the nation’s economy working again. Apart from the fiscal and monetary policies that are already yielding positive results, the federal government has injected economic stimulating incentives to address the challenges we are facing in the short, medium, and long-term. Agriculture, industrialization, infrastructure, education, and healthcare are receiving due attention from the Federal Government”.

The statement explains that the Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo administration is completely committed to ensuring that efforts at the centre percolate into the state as massive investments in agriculture, education, healthcare and infrastructure have begun.

“We have also continued to support homes across the state with palliatives to cushion the effects of the economic hardship occasioned by decades of mismanagement that the Tinubu Administration is working hard to correct” the Commissioner notes.

It stresses that as responsible citizens, there is a need to queue behind the efforts of the government at all levels to frontally deal with the issues challenging our coollective well-being.

“It will be understood if the opposition feels disappointed that our economy is gradually retaining momentum and therefore would not offer them the opportunity to campaign against the ruling party using those parameters. But it is unacceptable and utterly unpatriotic to stoke violence at this period in the name of protest” he states.

“It is heartwarming that we have received reports that our citizens are ready to march in solidarity with Mr. President’s efforts at defending the economic interests of the poor. We are proud of the fact that the people of Kogi have refused to yield the state to the macabre dance of agents of destabilization”

It further states that the administration of Ododo also expresses commitment in investing to cushion the impact of the economic challenges, promoting industrialization to enable young people to get jobs, prioritizing agriculture to crash the prices of food in the State and the nation as well as other measures to improve the standard of living in the state.

“Protests won’t crash the prices of food, intentional investment in agriculture like we are doing at the moment, will. We urge parents and guardians to give the right orientation to their wards. Nigeria can not afford another violent destruction of public infrastructure in the name of protests.

PR/Georgina Humphrey