As Kogi state join its eight other counterparts created in August twenty seven nineteen ninty one by the then military regime of General Ibrahim Babagida to mark her thirty first anniversary of its creation, Kogi state Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers ‘NUJ’ Comrade [Elder] Joel Salifu has felicitated with Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello,his cabinet members, Citizens and the primary school teachers in the state.
Comrade Joel Salifu in a message of felicitation to the citizens of the state which was made available to newsmen in Lokoja said its creation far back thirty one year ago is a dream come through for the inhabitants of the old Kabba province who had yearned to have a state of their own.
The state Leader of the teachers who took a clinical assessment of the leaders who were privileged to steer the ship of the state since its creation from retired colonel Daladi Zekari as the first military administrator and up to the present administration of Governor Yahaya Bello attested that the hope of the people were restored and rekindled despite nadir of challenges with the creation of the confluence state.
He acknowledged the immeasurable inroads of past and present leaders made in the establishment of durable and endurable infrastructural development projects ranging from setting up of Universities, Polytechnic and Colleges of Education, State of the arts health care facilities, good road network, advancement in primary and secondary Schools, construction of housing estates which spanned across the length and breath of the emerging solid minerals and oil producing rich state.
Comrade Joel Salifu who attributed the tremendous and gargantuan achievements the state and its citizens had recorded and witnessed during the period under reviewed traced it to the peaceful co-existence of the multi-ethnic tribes that decided to co-habit peacefully.
The State chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers while commending the state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello for granting the approval for the recruitment of new teachers how ever apealed for the payment of banklog of promotions arears, leave bonus and other entitlements owed them.
He further admonished the citizens to foster Peaceful living with one another, support government policies programmes and contribute their little quota to the socio-economic growth and development of the state.
‘As we commemorates the thirty first anniversary of the creation of our beloved Kogi state all hands must be desk to work together as one people with one destiny to help to catapults our father’s land to a blissful eldorado of sustainable socio-economic growth and advancement
