HON. GAGDI HAS BEATEN THE BLUEPRINT SET FOR HIM BY PKK – GOBAK
A former Secretary to Plateau State Government, and an elder statesman, Chief John Gobak mni, OFR, has showered accolades on the member representing Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam (PKK) Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, over his achievements as a federal legislator.
Speaking to THE BEACON in his office today, Gobak said that Gagdi’s performance in the Green Chamber of the National Assembly, and what he did to improve the welfare of his constituents is beyond their (PKK constituents) expectations and has the blueprint initiated for him by his constituents drawn from Pankshin, Kanke and Kanam Local Government Areas.
According to him, when Gagdi newly won his election in 2019, he enlisted him (Gobak) as head of the team that will come up with a blueprint of what his constituents will like to be done for them. And he (Gobak) asked Gagdi why he wanted to kill his political career, knowing fully well that any blueprint presented to him, will serve as a yardstick of judging his performance. He said, “I asked Gagdi whether he will be able to accomplish all that will be prepared for him as a blueprint. He gave me the assurance that he will be able. We then set out to work by nominating from each local government of the federal constituency those that will come up with a very good and life bettering blueprint. After completing their assignment, we presented to him as a document and he launched it in Pankshin.”
Beyond our wildest imagination Gobak went on, Gagdi did remarkably well more than what was enunciated for him. “
On the issue of a single term of four years in office being advocated for by some of Gagdi’s constituents, Gobak said, “The All Progressives Congress, APC, has given Pankshin the Senate ticket of Plateau Central Senatorial District to Pankshin, the Governorship Ticket to Kanke and the House of Reps of PKK to Kanam. The party faithful of PKK deems it fit to return Gagdi for a second term based on his remarkable achievements. This has balanced the equation. Those saying there shouldn’t be second tenure for Gagdi, which local government would they want to take double ratio, and why would they want Kanam to go empty? The people of Kanam have presented him as the person whom they want to fill in their portion, and they are not complaining, why would someone from Pankshin or Kanke complain? Is the Senate and Governorship not enough for them? Is politics not give and take?”
Furthermore, he said that reward system is an active ingredient in boosting the morale of elective office holders to do more. “Gagdi has made a very great impact on the lives of his constituents and we are praying that he will do more if he wins again, “he added.

Rt. HON. YUSUF GAGDI TO BE UNVEILED AS AMBASSADOR FOR THE 2022 OPSH PEACE AND UNITY FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT / SECURITY AND LEADERSHIP YOUTH SUMMIT

The commitment of Rt Hon Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, member representing Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam Federal Constituency to creating various platforms for the utilization of the energies of the youth to national development has been praised.

This was the view of the representative of Major General IS Ali, General Officer Commanding 3 Armoured Division and Commander, Special Task Force Operations Safe Haven (OPSH), when he visited him in his office at the Gagdi Support Group Foundation in Jos Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

Represented by Navy Captain HA Hassan, the Sector 1 Commander,Major General I.S Ali, noted that the choice and recognition of Rt Hon Yusuf Adamu Gagdi as Ambassador for the 2022 OPSH Peace and Unity Football Tournament/Security and Leadership Youth Summit was instructive given his pedigree in the area of youth empowerment and his youth friendly disposition.

While responding, the Senior Legislative Aide to Rt Hon Yusuf Gagdi, Pharm Mizim Dagung Haruna said the choice of his boss was well conceived, as it was an idea whose time has come.

He noted that Gagdi over the years, has remained consistent in his drive to ensure that the youth are given a place in the scheme of things to showcase their endowments.

He reiterated the fact that one of the things which the Rt Hon Yusuf Adamu Gagdi is closely associated with was the burning passion to unite young people through various initiatives.

Present during the meeting were members of the Operation Safe Haven Youth group led by their Coordinator Domtur Victor.


GAGDI STRATEGIC MEDIA TEAM
July 6, 2022

EID-EL-KABIR: GOVERNOR SIMON LALONG ADVOCATES UNITY, LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD

Plateau State Governor and Chairman Northern Governors Forum Simon Bako Lalong has felicitated with the Muslim Ummah as they join their counterparts worldwide to celebrate Eid-El-Kabir.

Governor Lalong in a Sallah message congratulated the Muslim Ummah for commemorating another significant event in the Muslim calendar which brings to fore the message of sacrifice, love, tolerance and unity as preached by the Holy Prophet (PBH).

The Governor urged Muslims to celebrate this significant spiritual event by reflecting on the issues that Nigeria has been confronted with such as insecurity, intolerance, religious bigotry, ethnic bias and poverty among others that can only be tackled when there is unity, collaboration and sacrifice among all Nigerians.

He said the matters that are weighing down national progress are such that Nigerians must look beyond parochial and selfish interests to enable people from all strata of society get equal opportunities contribute to solutions irrespective of their backgrounds.

While expressing optimism that Nigeria will surely overcome its challenges, Lalong challenged all stakeholders to work hard in building values and ethos that promote national agenda, equity, justice, fairness and respect for diversity particularly now that political activities are in top gear.

He also called on the Muslim Ummah to continue to pray for Plateau State and Nigeria and support the government as it works hard to fulfil its electoral mandate to the people.

Lalong also urged those in the holy land to pray and offer supplications to God for divine intervention in the affairs of the nation.

Dr. Makut Simon Macham
Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Governor of Plateau State.
8th July 2022.

NORTHERN GOVERNORS MEET MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE OVER NLTP/L-PRES IMPLEMENTATION AND SECURITY FOR FARMERS

The Northern Governors Forum has met with the Minister of Agriculture Dr. Mohammed Mahmood Abubakar over the National Livestock Transformation Programme and the State Level Project Socialisation on Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES), in the region.

The meeting held at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja was chaired by Simon Bako Lalong, Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State. It was attended by Governors of Kwara, Niger, Kebbi, Kaduna and Deputy Governors of Benue, Kogi, Bauchi and Nasarawa States.

Speaking to journalists after the meeting held behind closed doors, Governor Simon Lalong said the engagement was necessitated by the concern of the Northern Governors over the implementation of the programmes which have direct bearing on the lives of the people.

He said the Governors are worried over the slow pace of the implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Programme which was conceived to tackle the challenges confronting herdsmen and farmers.

He said because agriculture is the main stay of the North, the Forum welcomes the introduction of the new outfit Livestock, Productivity and Resilience Project (L-PRES) which it believes compliments the NLTP and will yield a positive result.

Lalong explained that the meeting was fruitful as the Governors got assurances from the Minister of Agriculture that the Federal Government will continue implementing all programmes in partnership with the States for the benefit of the people.

On security for farmers, he explained that the implementation of the programmes would also help in addressing the security challenges which farmers were experiencing in their farming activities.

He said “We are not sleeping the issue of insecurity as it has been a matter of concern where in some places farming activities have been interrupted. We are working with other stakeholders especially the security agencies to see how to help farmers. This is the time that farmers would need a lot of our support and assurance to produce food for the nation”.

The chairman also explained that the meeting discussed the revamping of the textile industry through the Northern Nigerian Development Company as a way of addressing unemployment and crime.

Dr. Makut Simon Macham
Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Governor of Plateau State & Chairman Northern Governors Forum.
7th July 2022.

NORTHERN GOVERNORS MOURN OPEC SECRETARY GENERAL DR. MOHAMMED SANUSI BARKINDO

The Northern Governors Forum has expressed shock and sadness over the sudden demise of Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Dr. Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo.

Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State Simon Bako Lalong in a statement said the Forum received with shock the death of the OPEC Secretary General who was on official duties in Nigeria when his death occurred.

Lalong said the death of Dr. Barkindo is a great loss to his immediate family, Nigeria and the international community because of his contributions to the energy sector and development of oil and gas in Nigeria and throughout the world.

He said Dr. Barkindo was a technocrat who distinguished himself in the field of oil and gas having put in many years in the industry and rising to head the NNPC where he led many reforms and initiatives to transform the industry.

Governor Lalong said Dr. Barkindo gave a good account of himself when he was elected Secretary General of OPEC as he led the Organisation through some of the most challenging periods in global energy crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic by ensuring recovery and stability.

Lalong said the Northern Governors Forum is proud of his achievements and support towards the passage of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), and exploration of oil and gas prospects across various parts of the country including the Northern Region.

While commiserating with the family and people of Adamawa State, Lalong prayed God to grant his soul eternal rest and comfort the family.

Dr. Makut Simon Macham
Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Governor of Plateau State and Chairman Northern Governors Forum.
6th July 2022.

Senator Daduut mourns elder stateswoman, Ngo Naomi Jugu

By Golok Nanmwa, Jos

Senator representing Plateau South Senatorial district in the National assembly Prof Nora Ladi Daduut, has expressed sadness over the demise of elderstateswoman and frontline politician Ngo Naomi Jugu who was called to glory last Tuesday at the age of 82.

Daduut who described the death of Ngo Naomi Jugu as a huge loss to her immediate family, Berom Nation, Plateau State and Nigeria at large said she would be greatly missed by people of the state and country.

While sympathizing with her family, the Senator said the late Naomi Jugu touched the lives of many while alive.

Senator Daduut in a statement made available to newsmen in Jos said she received the sad news with great shock stressing that Ngo Jugu was a great mentor and an astute politician whose death is a great lost to the people of Plateau.

She prayed to God Almighty to grant the soul of the deceased eternal rest and give the family, the fortitude to bear the lost.

“As Senator Daduut fumes, urge security agencies to intensify efforts to investigate the matter”

By Golok Nanmwa, Jos

Operation Safe Haven, deployed to restore law and order in Plateau, on Tuesday, confirmed that bandits attacked Angwan Bashar community and another community in Kanam Local Government Area of the State.

Military Information Officer Major Ishaku Takwa Takwa told newsmen in Jos that after the attacks by the bandits on the two communities were repelled by the troops in conjunction with the local vigilante group, eight corpses belonging to the bandits were recovered by the villagers.

Takwa said, “What happened was that there was an attack by bandits yesterday in the night on Angwa Bashar in Kanam LGA.”

“Before our troops arrived with heavy gunfire, the vigilante men were already engaging the bandits. So, the troops in conjunction with the vigilante men were able to repel the attack. But as the attack in Angwan Bashar was going on, we received information that another set of bandits was attacking another village within the council area.”

“So our troops withdrew from Angwan Bashar and moved to the said community and repelled the attack. After the operation, the villagers told us that they recovered eight corpses but our troops did not suffer any casualty.”

Takwa, who described the onslaught against the bandits in the two communities as successful, called on the people to always provide the military and other security agents with timely information to enable them to protect the people.

“A criminal is a criminal. All that is going on in that area is criminality, whether cattle rustling, kidnapping, or attack on a community. They are all the same. All that we need is for the people to let us know in time about the activities of these criminals so that we can deal with the situation,” the Military Information Officer added.

One of the vigilante men, who participated in repelling the attacks, Tasiu Ibrahim, said that before the attack on their communities, the bandits had given them quit notice to vacate their area.

Ibrahim said, “We got the quit notice last week Tuesday where the bandits said we must leave our villages or they will kill all of us. We also learnt that similar quit notices were served on other villages by the bandits.”

“We don’t know where we are going to run to and everyone knows that those people do not make empty threats. But we thank God that they did not succeed when they eventually tried to carry out their threat to kill all of us. Instead, some of them were the ones who died because we recovered about eight of their corpses after they attacked us.”

Reacting to the development, the Senator representing Plateau South, Prof. Nora Daduut, lamented the insecurity in some parts of Kanan and Wase LGAs and called on security operatives to come to the rescue of the people in the affected communities.

“As the senator representing Plateau South, I urge security agencies to intensify efforts to investigate the matter with the aim of bringing perpetrators to book and as well deploy drones and helicopters to monitor forests around Plateau South senatorial district, to identify illegal camps of armed bandits throughout the country.

“I also seek for collaboration amongst various security agencies on intelligence gathering and call on the people of my senatorial district to be security conscious.”

By Golok Nanmwa, Jos

12 persons were killed in a clash between bandits and vigilantes, in Zak community of Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State.

Shapi’i Sambo, a youth leader in Wase who confirmed the latest development told our correspondent that the incident occurred around 9am yesterday explaining that “the clash left 12 people dead out which 9 were bandits while 3 were vigilantes.”

Our correspondent reports that Zak, is about 40 kilometers from Wase town, the headquarters of Wase LGA.

Major Ishaku Takwa, the spokesperson of the Operation Safe Haven(OPSH), a multi security taskforce maintaining peace in the state, confirmed the incident to newsmen but could not ascertain the casualty figure of the incident, stressing that the commander and troops who repelled the attack moved to Gajin Bashar community to fight bandits who had stormed the area to attack, saying the men of the OPSH moved to Gajin Bashar after receiving distress calls of an attack.

The youth leader narrated that “The bandits came on motorcycles in their numbers in the morning. We suspected that they passed a night in a bush closed to Zak.



“When people realised that the bandits arrived the community, they quickly informed Operation Safe Haven stationed in Zak and they swiftly mobilised their troops to the general area and repelled the attacks together with the vigilantes, It was a serious clash,” Shapi’i added.

NIGERIAN INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS APPLAUD WORK ON BRITISH-AMERICAN FLYOVER JOS.

As part of their 6 days intensive training organized in Jos, members of the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE) Plateau State Chapter visited the construction site of the British-American Flyover and Dualisation to Lamingo Roundabout Junction.

The visit to the site was coordinated by Engr. Beedee Bot, Director at the Plateau State Ministry of works and Chairman, Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE) Plateau Chapter.

During the visit, the Engineers comprising of practicing and fresh graduates who had undergone intensive training of civil engineering and emerging challenges, were briefed on the scope and progress of work by Engr. Charbel who stood in for Engr. Dani, the Resident Manager of Craneburg Construction Company Ltd. which is the contractor handling the work.

He enumerated the details of work progress to include earth works, concrete works, pre casting of main beams, construction of piers and cross beams. Others are the construction of kerps, concrete drainages, form works among several others.

He explained the scope of the work and the progress so far made which he said was attributed to the support of the Executive Governor of Plateau State Simon Bako Lalong whose political will and commitment has sustained the tempo of work.

In his remarks, the NICE Chairman Engr. Beedee Bot said the British-American Flyover and Dualisation to Lamingo Roundabout Junction is one of the key projects of the Lalong Rescue Administration which is setting the pace in project delivery as work has continued without break since it began.

He also said the site has become a reference point for young engineers and students who want to take on engineering as a profession, saying the quality of work is also something that deserves to be commended.

The NICE Chairman also said the State Commissioner for Works Pam Bot-Mang and the Management of the Ministry have dedicated themselves to delivering on the mandate of the Governor for the completion of the project before the end of the tenure of the present Administration.

Resource persons during the 6 days intensive training for NICE Members include Engr. Sunday Chong Hyat Head of Service Plateau State; Engr Dr M.I. Alpha Meshach NICE Sec. Gen & Lecturer Unijos; Engr. Nfon Essien, Immediate past Chairman NICE Jos chapter & Consultant for the British American Junction Flyover; Engr Beedee M. Bot; and Engr H.O Ezemma, CEO Zemas & Partners.

Ministry of Works, Plateau State.
5th June 2022.

2023: RESCUE YOUTH VANGUARD CALLS ON DR. NENTAWE YILWATDA GOSHWE AND APC TO GIVE THE RUNNING MATE TICKET TO PROF. DAVID PAM YAKUBU

2023: Rescue Youth Vanguard calls on Dr Nentawe and APC to give the running mate ticket to Prof. David Pam Yakubu.

★ Describes him as the perfect running mate for APC in Plateau North.

Rescue Youth Vanguard,an APC Youth group in Plateau State have called on the party leadership to give the party running mate to Prof. David Pam Yakubu.

This decision was made known by the patriotic youths during a briefing held today at Greatklings Continental Suits Hotel,Gold and Base in Jos the Plateau State capital.

Leader of the Youth group, Mr Simon Chuwhak in a statement described Prof. David Pam Yakubu as committed, loyal and fairless member of the party from Vwang in Jos South who has given his best by working ASSIDUOUSLY for APC since 2014 by projecting the government and its activities and also sensitizing the citizens towards greater Participation in governance and has contributed in the emergence of the APC in plateau state.

“We need someone who is familiar with the affairs of Lalong administration to bring his well of experience, knowledge to help in consolidating on the Lalong achievements.

Mr Simon also stated that it’s necessary for the ruling APC to pick its deputy from Berom land and Prof. David Pam Yakubu is one of the trusted and experienced APC members from the entire land.

With Prof. David Pam Yakubu as our party running mate, our Victory in the coming General election is assured.

The group also called on all well meaning individuals to key into the idea of generation next movement.

Simon also thanked GOVERNOR Lalong for giving level playing ground to all aspirants and called on all the aspirants to see the outcome of the APC primaries as the will of God.