Benue State Governor makes key political appointments

Admin I Wednesday, May 31, 2023

 

BENUE, Nigeria – Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia has announced his first set of political appointments.

The list include Dr Emmanuel Chenge, appointed Principal Private Secretary; Moses Agbogbo Ode has been appointed as Head of Service.

Others are Prof Joseph Alakali – Secretary to State Government, while Sir Tersoo Kula has been appointed as the Chief Press Secretary. Rt. Hon. Paul Biam has been appointed as the Chief of Staff

The appointment are with immediate effect. In his inaugural speech , the governor said the state has been tested by crises that “have steeled our resolve and proved our resilience”.

“We therefore promised to prioritize the security of lives and property of our people by ending insecurity occasioned by farmer/herder crisis, returning our Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, to their ancestral homes and providing them a means of livelihood in a new economy.

“We promised to industrialize our State through agriculture and massive rural development. This cannot be done through government alone and therefore, we will create the conditions that promote private sector-led, Agric driven industrialisation.

“We promised to celebrate the initiative and enterprise of our people, their insistence on hard work and personal responsibility which are constants in our character. We will achieve this by creating opportunities through a revitalised commerce and industry space.

“We need to build capabilities of our people for the change we want to lead through human capital and social development. We must build the required infrastructure to support our planned economic growth and care for the environment to mitigate the devastating effects of climate change through theadoption of climate change adaptation technologies.

“We, like other countries and organizations, must move forward with digital transformations and the skills needed to implement them through investment in information and communications technology, ICT.

“Finally, we promised to reform our civil service and local government systems, carry out pension reform, education reform and curricula review, review our laws to make them investor-friendly through political and economic governance”, he said.