It is worth noting that the Shema administration sponsored over 800 Katsina State students to study abroad in critical areas like medicine, pharmacy, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, radiology, computer engineering, etc Also, he provided free medicare to women and children, dialysis and malaria patients, accident victims, etc. He did not borrow money to implement any project, did not indebt the state, and also, he left over N14 billion in the coffers of the state government and local governments as at 29, May, 2015. Surprisingly, despite all these laudable projects recorded, the Shema administration was not owing civil servants or contractors as of. Shema expanded the Katsina State International Airport procured and distributed 340 Messi Ferguson tractors at discounted price to farmers established Katsina Songhai agricultural projects in three senatorial districts of the state provided fertiliser to farmers at the cost, less than N1800, throughout his eight years tenure etc. He provided 3,000 boreholes across the state, while also building over 100 semi-urban water schemes. He established ICT and Business Institute built Katsina City Mall, Dubai International market established Youths Craft Village, where more than 4,000 youths were trained annually. To his credit was also the introduction of the Rural Ambulance Service Scheme in 34 local governments of the state.Īlso, his administration built over 3,000 kilometre of roads across the state built over 3,500 houses to cater for housing needs of the state built a new ultra modern Government House, built Umaru Musa Yar’adua University constructed 35,000 sitting capacity Olympic size stadium built over 200 newly established secondary schools and 34 girl child primary schools across the state, alongside over 100 ALLO model schools to support Almanjiri education, with a total population of over 17,000 students as at 2015 (with free feeding, uniform, hand craft training and stipends to teachers). Projects such as 250- bed orthopaedic and specialist hospital, 361 clinics in 361 political wards in the state. However, to attain this feat, Shema, as a Governor of Katsina State, through prudent management of resources during his eight years administration, executed landmark projects without any loan facility, that marked the progressive turning point in the history of the state. It is a statement of fact that after the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua laid solid foundation for the progress and development of Katsina State, as the then governor, his immediate successor, Ibrahim Shehu Shema, turned out to be the catalyst of progressive transformation of the state, hence Shema remains among the key political factors that determine political direction in the state’s politics. However, there is a need for the younger generation to learn from his sacrificial style of leadership. I knew if I decided to do so, his principled style of service for national and public interest, and not for public applause, would not allow him to give me the go-ahead. I broke the protocol in putting up this write-up for not seeking his permission or opinion. The former Governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shehu Shema has once again during the 2023 general elections written his name in the golden book of the state as the political game changer whose patriotic role restored the state to progressive part.
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