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INTERVIEW
HON DR
HARUNA MSHELIA
Hon. Your name and the people you rep- cy, the 2020 has just been passed, do you think
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Q esent the budget will actually meet the yearnings
My names are Hon. Dr Haruna Mshelia , and aspirations of Nigerians.
A Askira-Uba/Hawul Federal Constituency The budget is a law passed by the House
of Borno state. Ato enable the Government execute its pro-
You are federal law maker, and we want to grams, and since the coming of this Govern-
Q believe there are certain things you were ment under President Mohammadu Buhari,
into before you got into politics, we would like you know the main function of government
to know briefly about your journey so far. is to create an enabling environment where
I am a medical doctor by profession and the citizenry can do whatever they want to
AI graduated as far back as 1982 from the do to advance the course of their lives,in my
prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, own part of the world particularly the area
I specialize as an internal physician, and I’ve I represent, for the past ten years we have
been a consultant since 1988, I mainly work in been bedeviled by insurgency, boko haram.
the hospital, but I also double as a lecturer at The coming of Mr President, he has succeed-
the University of Maiduguri teaching hospital. ed in calming the situation down, because as
But primarily, my service is to the Borno state at the time he came in, almost 20 out of the
government, where I rose to the rank of Chief 27 Local Government were under the control
Consultant, and also got promoted as perm of boko haram and lots of my people were in-
sec. in the service I also served as commission- ternally displaced {IDPs}, but all that has been
er 3 times, 2wice in the Ministry of Health and reversed, currently we don’t have a single ter-
once at the Ministry works and housing. This is ritory under boko haram control, so kudos to
me in a snap shot. the Government and it is the Budget that has
helped to achieve that, next to that is good
You represent the people of your constitu- governance, to ensure that there is good gov-
Q ncy, the is the major meet bar which they ernance in the country, one of our greatest
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can benefit and get the dividend of Democra-
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