Creation of New Lame Emirate will Help to Explore More Minerals, Agricultural resources in Bauchi--Sarkin Yakin Bauchi
By Ahmad SAKA, Bauchi
King Maker in Bauchi Emirate Sarkin Yakin Bauchi , Alhaji Aliyu Yakubu Lame , the District Head of Lame , has advocate on the need for critical role for traditional institutions, strategic leadership, and global partnerships play in state and national development.
As Bauchi continues to position itself as a center of peace and growth in the North-East, and many effort put inplace by the state Government to create new emirates, Districts , Chiefdoms voices like Sarkin Yakin Bauchi ,add valuable insight to the conversation on how best to harness local and global opportunities for collective progress through genuine investment in Agriculture and Natural Resources"
How can you asses the role of Traditional rulers in nation building?
We thank the almighty Allah , I will first of all commended the role of traditional institutions in fostering peace, unity, and cultural preservation in Bauchi State and Nigeria at large.
Because traditional rulers remain vital pillars of stability, particularly in multi-ethnic societies, we always praised the Bauchi State Governor Senator Bala Abdulkadir Muhammed and the Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Dr. Rilwanu Suleimanu Adamu, who also serves as the Chairman of the Bauchi State Council of Emirs, for consistently creating an enabling environment that allows citizens within and outside the state to celebrate their rich cultural heritage during festivals, and pray for peace and stability,
“Our traditional leaders play significant roles in peacebuilding and cultural preservation,. “I sincerely appreciate the Governor Bala Mohammed Emir of Bauchi for their fatherly leadership and for always supporting initiatives that unite our people.”
That’s the reason why we are always in the support of the intiatives of people advocating constitutional role for traditional rulers in Nigeria, the role will come with protection to their diginity , it will protect the institution and the even the constitution.
How can you describe the relationship between Government and traditional institutions,
We thanks the almighty Allah we enjoy cordial relationship with the Government , the Governor happens to come from the royal families he respect our emirs, districts heads and villages heads and all traditional rulers , he built a new palaces for our emirs and the districts heads many have been completed , even though my own is among the one on going yet to be completed , I will use this opportunity to appeal to the contractor to return to the site and complete my palace, we appreciate everything and appeal for more.
Recently the Governor intend to create new emirates chiefdoms in Bauchi State?
We thank the almighty Allah who gave the Governor wisdom and foresight to comes with this laudable initiative that will bring people close to their leaders more , due to the increase in population, expansion of lands and territories, and many other reasons in doing the governor intends to be fair and just.
He told the committee to look in to the History of the agitators for new emirates districts , to look into their economic sustainability, population, land size and many other in other to be fair to all agitators,take for example in Lame our district was created by Yakubun Bauchi we have old age long History with Bauchi emirate because our Great Grandfather first Sarkin Yakin Bauchi Mamman Kusu created the lame district more than 300 years ago, and two district were created out of Lame District , first Jema’a District was created 47 years ago and Toro District over 37 years ago, we have billions of natural resources in Lame district , apart from agriculture, we have petroleum, Gold, Tin, lithium, iron, and many other things needed for the growth and development of Nigeria ,
I am sure creating emirate in Lame will help to explore all these resources that were not explore before, and I believe lame district qualify for everything needed to get a new emirate interms of History, wealth, Population and everything, and we have confident under Governor no injustice will happen , justice will be done to all.
Can you asses the development in the State today?
Reflecting on the development trajectory of Bauchi State, what ever the government dfid they did it for the benefit of our subjects , we owned the projects we traditional rulers , we always acknowledged the progress made since the state’s creation and the tenure of present administration.
I want to commend the successive governors for their contributions to the state’s transformation and explained .that Bauchi has developed transformed rapidly within the last six years of Governor Balas administration because of visionary leadership he instill at all levels. I thank all past and present governors for their commitment to the state’s growth,”
Governor Bala ready changed Bauchi, if you know Bauchi before the 2019 and if you come to Bauchi you will definitely knows that something happened like magic because the state is transforming , you will see beautiful roads beautiful models hospital , beautiful markets under constructions , beautiful government house , beautiful international conference center beautiful Hajj camp and many other facilities that turned a state to a model city, not only in the state capital but projects are scattered in all the 20 local government areas many projects are cited like in the city ,all local government headquarter have been rebuilt, many hospitals and schools have been built many roads and bridges have been built infact he is turning our rural areas to the cities we thank the almighty Allah .
Call for Prayers and Unity
we urged citizens to continue praying for leaders at all levels, emphasizing that good governance is only possible in an atmosphere of peace, support, and divine guidance.
“We must keep praying for our leaders and remain united. When we support them with prayers and positive actions, they are more likely to deliver on their mandates,”
I want to called on both government and private investors to prioritize agriculture and industrial development in the country. because investing in agriculture could create millions of jobs for Nigerian youths and women while boosting food security and export earnings which lame district has.
“Agriculture remains Nigeria’s greatest asset. If we invest in large-scale farming and agro-processing industries, we can empower our youths, reduce unemployment, and revive the economy,” even advance countries like Germany and other parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa has exposed many innovative agricultural and industrial models that can be adapted to Nigeria’s context.
we have seen from Germany to Malaysia, Ghana to Turkey, how agriculture and small-scale industries can transform a nation. Nigeria has the land, the people, and the potential—we just need the will and investment,” .
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