By Ezekiel Dontinna
Plateau State Commissioner of Transport, Hon. Davou Dalyop Jatau, has described Nigeria’s journey from Independence as of mixed feelings going by series of interruptions in its leadership.
He stated while in an interview with our correspondent on the occasion marking Nigeria’s 64th Independence Celebration in Jos, the Plateau State.
The Commissioner said, “we actually started on the right footing as a country and we were able to come up with infrastructures that, history wise, came up with evolution that of world standard in Nigeria and Africa at large.
“The interruptions and interception of democracy with the 64 years of our Independence, has been a journey of mixed feelings with sweet and rocky journey at the same time. Be it military and civilian together”, he observed.
Jatau, therefore, congratulated Nigerians on the occasion of the 64th Independence Celebration and commended them for sustaining democracy in the last 25 years.
He expressed optimism that, the show of interest and commitment to the sustainability of Nigeria’s democracy was an indication of the fact that it has come to stay.
However, the Commissioner, somehow blamed the reckless display of corruption to the military interruptions where powers were in the hands of some few and not following down the chan to grassroots where the larger population of beneficiary account existed.
He expressed confidence that with democracy in place, every citizen has the constitutional right to the freedom of expression and benefits from the country’s Commonwealth unlike during military, describing it as a plus to the development of the country.
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