Some Of The Major Footprints Of Nyako As Governor
When Admiral Murtala Nyako was the Governor of Adamawa state, he took unique, political and economic moves to better the lots and created positive changes which can bear fruits to generations of the people in Adamawa state.
Besides that there was development which has moved surreptitiously under the Nyako administration from 2007 to 2014 when he was impeached.
Under land expansion more than 28 very large new layouts were created and adequate land for development was allocated to the general public in the state capital alone while the state Government also created twenty eight additional layouts in 21 Local Governments Areas to give industrial development and residential plots to the people.
To put the state forward Governor Murtala Nyako also established the Adamawa Geographic Information System (AGIS) to handle all land related matters, the greater Yola master plan was reviewed alongside the greater Mubi Master Plan to accommodate the teeming populace.
The government had successfully allocated arable land to farmers, grazers’ developers and other industrial concerns. within the same period the ministry of land and survey under Nyako realized more than N8 billion as revenues on N50,000 development levy on residential plots allocation which has surpassed the previous 20 years revenue put together in the ministry, this is another achievement of the then Nyako Government in Adamawa.
The then Governor Murtala Nyako took some bold steps to allocate more than 30 vehicles and funds to all paramilitary formations apart the allocation to the police, Army and the Nigeria Air force, State Security Services SSS to establishing the operation Tsaro Agency to curb security threats in Adamawa state.
He ordered security surveillance equipments which were supplied to all security units in Adamawa while motorcycles were banned in some local governments to curb the security bleaches which were been perpetrated using Achaba motorcycles.
Nyako’s quest to lead the North East in terms of development broadened with the establishment of the Nigerian Law School in Yola where he provided land, infrastructures and adequate assistant for the school to take-off; the State Government within the period of Governor Nyako administration also established the Adamawa State Court of Appeal Complex by providing the needed land and infrastructures for the Appeal Court to take-off, the court has since commenced its operations in Yola, the people of the North East no longer go to Jos to file appeal cases.
With the establishment of these institutions it has help so much in the administration of Justice as cases which would normally take years to process were easily handled without any delay.
The State Government also established the Court of Appeal Staff Quarters so that the Judges will have a comfortable place to live in apart from that the state Government also established the Federal High Court with all logistics supplied but Nyako leadership did not rest on his ours he again established the Adamawa State National Industrial Court, and provided them with land, infrastructures logistics support to all the Justices the Industrial Court is doing well in Yola, the former governor did not stop there he also established the Adamawa State Customary Court of Appeal with land and logistics supplied there is no state in the entire North East that has these Federal Government present which was made possible by the singular efforts of Governor Nyako to supply the land, infrastructure, logistics and even cars for the taking off of these centers, his sheer determination and doggedness to put Adamawa State as a proud state beyond the region is highly commendable.
From the time he was elected governor, Murtala Nyako spent about a
N40 billion on roads development alone to reposition Adamawa State so for the picture is rosy with paved roads and bridges completed in places that were very muddy and dangerous. One of such places is the entire Alh. Shehu Shagari Estate located in Yola South Local Government Area, during raining season that place used to be no go area with death traps and dangerous flooding.
Today Shagari Housing Estate is a beautiful place to behold as the former Governor had built state of the art roads constructed world class drainages in all the streets in Shagari Estate. Admiral Murtala Nyako also provided adequate construction of the General Gibson Jallo 23 Armored brigade and the link to the Gibson Jallo cantonment in the 23 Armored Bridget, Nigeria Army Barracks Yola.
A beautiful office blocks which he built it himself, was constructed in the Barracks for the top officers, Admiral Nyako also constructed the General Gibson Jallo cantonment the new administrative headquarters of the Nigerian Army Yola because the old one which was situated on some make shift structures was not good for the modern age Army to efficiently handle its administrative needs and it was turned into Command Guest House.
Nyako also supplied logistics at the new Ultra Modern General Gibson Jallo cantonment which now serve as the headquarters of the top echelon of the Army in Yola. He also constructed the Nigerian Prison Service, NPS head office in Yola, they were formerly hanging somewhere at the Federal Secretariat but Nyako built and donated a building with modern offices for them near the Grandview Terrace.
Governor Nyako also constructed the welcome to Yola Gate road to Sangere village area and he also constructed the Yola – Numan road (65km) which is a Federal Government road. The Mubi township roads and drainages were also been completed Mubi was noted for terrible bad network of roads but since Nyako took the bull by the horns new and exciting network of roads sprung up in Mubi and its environs.
The Pabambi Bridges along Yola to Fufore Local Government were constructed by him but bridges are yet to be commissioned before he was removed. Nyako apart from these laudable achievements also constructed a 2km road in each Local Government Area of Adamawa state while he commence the ongoing rehabilitation of Galadima Aminu road and the Grandview Terrace and Dougirei roads with the rehabilitation of the Mararraba Cigarri to Karlahi road has also been completed, construction of the Pella bridge and grading of the Pella to Maiha to Mubi rads.
Former Governor Nyako also completed the Bishop Street road and the new Bishop Street Roundabout and the Bekaji Roundabout, he also completed the Jimeta Ultra Modern Market which was an off-shoot of the Boni Haruna administration, the Ganye street road and roundabout were completed, and the Jambutu Modern Motor Park which is the best in the Northern Nigeria was also build by him.
The then Governor also provided 21 ambulances in the 21 Local Government General Hospitals and he also constructed the world class Adamawa State German Diagnostic Center which comprises of orthopedic unit, x ray unit, CT scan and MRI units as well as VVF Centers among other sophisticated facilities at the Adamawa State German Diagnostic Center the best of such in the North East.
Nyako also constructed and upgraded existing cottage hospitals which were modernized into Multipurpose General Hospitals in the 21 Local Government Areas of Adamawa State. Some of the college hospitals were shut down when he took over as Governor.
The construction of the 150 bed hospital at Mayo-Belwa became controversial as the contractors ran away. He organized and procured mobile telemedicine’s, ambulances across the state which are designated in the Federal House of Representatives constituencies for easy accessibility by a phone-in programme to get a multi purpose health ambulance within minutes this programmes was new to the Northern State and the former Governor established each ambulances with state of the art facilities and a waiting doctor to attend to emergency cases.
He also had a programme to provide free medical examinations and free drugs to pregnant women and children below the age of five years old. Snake bite victims in Adamawa State were also treated free of charge this programme was introduced by Admiral Murtala Nyako and there is no more death by snake bite as those who find their ways to hospitals around them were well taken care of.
Former Governor Nyako also procured and distributed free medicines and other hospital reagents to all the 21 General Hospitals of the state this programme cost stupendous resources,
The Primary Healthcare Development Agency the first ever programme on the primary healthcare was established by the then Governor and new ultra modern office complex was constructed and named after the then Governors wife Dr. Mrs. Halima Njideka Nyako, who has worked concisely to see to it that her NGO on health related matters reached the under privileged people of Adamawa state. Hajiya Halima Njideka Nyako is from Anambra State
The former Governor also established the Adamawa State Health Insurance Scheme for the workers of the state; the Admiral also employed 295,000 jobless youths as (SA) Special Assistant the lived mostly in the ruler areas and earned subsistence income of about N10, 000 monthly.
The programme is to curb the unemployment level of the state besides, youths who are benefiting from the programme are more in number than the entire Adamawa Civil Service package which incidentally draws salaries beyond a staggering N2.4Bm monthly.
Apart from the political scene which had portrayed Adamawa State as a turbulent pandemonium there was quite a large position of development introduced by then Governor Nyako since he assumed duty as the state Governor so far; the picture was rosy but be it as it may, no Government can execute every project in the community there are always areas of improvement and the then Governor did not leave anything to chance he was staunchly determined to reach the promised land of development in Adamawa State.
But was suddenly that rosy pictorial was caught short by an unwarranted impeachment which was unconstitutional and an aberration of the law courts contrary to section 188 of the 1999 constitutional as amended.