We are tired of empty promises, Yola Residents tells Fintiri

Residents of Adamawa state have today said that they are tired of the many promises of Adamawa state governor, Umaru Fintiri, saying since the swearing in of the governor they cannot point to any specific project he has started apart from making different promises in every fora to gain public sympathy.

Residents told The Finder during citizen evaluation of Fintiri metre launched by civil society some weeks ago in Yola that they have for many days been filled with too many promises during election time by Gov. Fintiri and still continue to make more promises after being sworn in as the governor of the state

“we wonder why the governor continue in his usual habit of making many promises as if he is still campaigning after election has come and gone, prior to the election he promised, 32000 minimum wage and later promised to be the first governor to implement the new wage, but up till date he has not done that, what of the gratuity he promised the people and the free health for women and children, recently he made another promise to convert college for legal study to Adsu faculty of law and also to commence secondary school feeding programme he has been promising us a lot of things,” said Mr Morris Cleophas.

Mr Cleophas said the demand for the governor to probe the missing 500 million meant for the establishment of ADSU law faculty in 2014 has gone down the drain and the sales of high land tea in 2014 is yet to be investigated and there is no project on ground to match the governor’s many promises of “I will do this” “I will do that”.

“Most of the street in Yola now is in the dark yet the governor continue the promise, he should just focus on one thing let’s see how it goes than making many promises with little resources available to be put into use ,” he said.

Mr Ibrahim Holma, a resident of Jimeta in the state said Fintiri has been promising, he should build on the success of roads build by Senator Bindow and fulfilled the good health services he promised from the beginning. According to Mr Holma, the government has been slow in implementing its promises.