People Should Be Able To Create Wealth – AONDOAKAA
Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN
“First, is the fact that the state needs to be practically developed. I see the shortfall in development and I see the shortfall in our social interaction as a State with outside states and other components of Nigeria to create a conducive atmosphere for transformation of the state. My zeal is to make the state prosperous; people should be able to create wealth, especially in local communities.
“When I came back from service in 2010, when I was sacked as Attorney General for the stand I took. I was the first cabinet member to be dropped when I insisted that the late Yar’adua must die before the issue of handover must be. I stood my ground. When I came back, I said to myself, let me do something for my people…I set up a rice mill to create rice value chain and I saw the effectiveness of that single thing I did. It may not be much, but at the time it was one of the four ground breaking rice Mills in Nigeria. The idea was trying to lessen importation and create direct wealth in communities.
“When I created the value chain successfully, it has been there for the past 10years. The zeal is that, since we are an agricultural state, if I replicate that at the state level, not just on rice but other products, in such a way that Benue becomes the hub for agricultural produce, then I must have achieved my targets. I can’t do that by not being in government. That’s why I am aspiring to become the next governor of Benue state by the grace of God.”
– Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN
