The immediate past Speaker House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has accused the past administration of Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar for deliberately making the state dirty by neglecting environmental sanitation in Bauchi state.
Dogara who made the remarks on Saturday during a special sanitation exercise organised by the present administration of Bala Mohammed held across the state described MA Abubakar’s administration as total mess that has abandoned the plights of its people.
Addressing journalists shortly after monitoring theexercise, Governor Bala Mohammed directed for a comprehensive sanitationexercise across the twenty local government areas of the state, saying hisadministration would sensitize people of the state on the need to live up totheir corporate social responsibilities.
He said the exercise was part of the present administration’sdetermination to ensure a hygienic and healthy environment, assuring that urbanand rural plans would be considered as part of efforts to ensure cleanenvironment in line with global best practices.
Governor Bala Mohammed who applauded corporate bodies fortheir support to the exercise, said the present administration would come upwith administrative framework that will ensure the sustenance of exercise.
In his remarks, the newly elected Speaker, Bauchi StateHouse of Assembly, Alhaji Abubakar Y. Suleiman pledged the support of thelawmakers to the governor’s initiative.
The Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Rilwanu Sulaimanu Adamu hadearlier pledged the support of traditional institutions for healthy andhygienic environment.
