Gov. Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa has inaugurated newly elected 27 local government councils chairmen in the state, urging them to ensure good governance, transparency, and accountability in their operations.

Badaru said this at the ceremony on Thursday in Dutse, adding that the state was faced with numerous challenges.

“I want to advise you to always put the fear of God in the management of resources in your respective councils so that God will guide you,” he said.

He said the state-local councils had made lots of progress, through a developmental agenda, in spite of economic and social challenges facing the state.

The governor urged the chairmen to emulate their predecessors by focusing on peoples’ oriented programmes, mostly initiated by the state government, to make positive impacts on peoples’ lives.

“We introduced a work-plan to make sure that projects get to the people and they complied and they worked and that has shown us a lot of success.

“We will continue with that arrangement because it guided the chairmen to engage in projects that were really peoples oriented.

“I congratulated them for really abiding by the rules and doing what they had to do.

“They could have said no because they were the chief executives of their councils.

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“We did not dictate to them what to do, but we consulted and discussed and came up with things that we believed were right and they believed also that what we have done was right,” he said.

Badaru urged the state residents to give necessary support to the new chairmen to enable them to deliver dividends of democracy to the people.