I see more of incompetent people around the governor than competent hands- Architect  Hart  Bankert

    ViewPointNigeria- Straight talk with Longgul dakwom

Introduction

Hart Bankart is an Architect by training.  A product of University of  Jos from undergraduate to postgraduate level.  Married and blessed with two kids, a staff and the managing Director of Maysu  group.

Role Models Include: JD Gomwalk, His Father, Engineer Daman ( the man that transform Hart to where he is). He admires Al Maktoum of Dubai for what he is doing in his country(Dubai) and ( Hart) hopes one day he will have the opportunity and privilege  to contribute in Nigeria just like Al Maktoum of Dubai . He also shares in the struggle of Martin Luther King JNR for whatever he stood for, modeling the world to grow in love.

Arc Hart Bankart believes a as of matter of principles that if you can reach on to touch one then, the world will be a better place. As an Architect he is guided by functionality and quality as signature of his work as a growing architect.

photo credit : lawuna yilwada        Hart Bankart and dakwom longgul 

Q.1 How did you get into politics?

Politics to my understanding is a pure call to service, I was a unionist while in school, we are the first set of students in CAST KURGWI were we struggled to get students union in place, with a  legitimate students union, from there we proceeded to  the University of Jos, I was privileged to be NAPSS president and other responsibility in the department, I contested for SUG but couldn’t make it. However, by the special grace of God I was later elected as secretary General of NANS.

I learn a lot from unionism because to us, it was a life of service , as a unionist, you seek to serve your people. Again by nature of my job we had opportunity to work in  many communities  so we fashioned a policy of not paying the workers every day, we open an account and accumulate their pay and when paid at last, the money is reasonable that many could invest, and the people still call us to thank us for such initiative. It may interest you to note, that I have pasted posters for people, I have been engaged in political activities, I have gone for political rallies. I also was engaged in serious political engagement and strategy, so we grew up in the space from being advisers to being partakers.

We came to particular time and I took up the challenge because we had first hand information on the needs of our society and how we can get it fixed hence, basically that is how we get involved in the politics.

Q.2  Now to the specific, why did you join politics?

It’s simple… for me, is to touch lives positively

Q.3 what do mean by touching lives, kindly elucidate please?

I woke up every day to the fear- when I look at my kids and the future look bleak because I look at them as kids that will grow up without a certain future. When I talk of touching lives, it is for the child of that plumber or that nobody in the village to have the same privileges as that in the city. Our essence of touching lives is to see that people moved from the point they are to a better point. A more guaranteed point than where they would have lived and die, I believe personally that if everybody around is not ok then you are not ok.  I believe personally that if everybody around is not ok then you are not ok.

Q.4  Ok  on a scale of 1 to 10 can you assess the present administration of Simon Bako Lalong.

On a scale of one to ten, I will give them three.

Q5 ok, three is very poor?

Dismally poor… it is sad, I would have to comment on a  lot of things to justify my giving them three, I see more of incompetent people around the governor than competent hands. It is sad that three years down the line we are discussing partisan politics as against the common interest of the state, I keep asking is Lalong the Governor of Plateau state or a Governor of a party? What parameters are there to see that they protect the interest of plateau people?  If you go to our health institution it is an eye saw, today as am talking to you villages have been ransacked and over 40 villages cannot go back to their ancestral home but we claim there is peace, we are not bold to tell the world that we have problem in plateau state. In arrears of agriculture, at this particular point in time Kaduna produces more potatoes than plateau, what happen to the tomato Jos that many artist have paint the picture?

Again, I want to asked is there a tourist site in the home of peace and tourism? Your guest is as good as mind, there is none, they only exist on paper.

Well I don’t critic without solution, there are solutions to our problem we live in the age that you don’t need to be innovative, you can copy and paste. I will give you an example the Rwandan model, when you go to Rwanda, the genocide that happened in Rwanda took millions of lives which means it hasn’t happen here, after the sad event the move on, policies were set in place and proper law was serve to avert future occurrence and as we speak Rwanda is the fastest growing city in Africa, Kigali to be precise. When you go to Kigali there is a monument that is done after the genocide, when you tell a Rwandese to take you there they can’t the memory lingers. They have put it in their curriculum, the studied that. As am talking to you now after series of many conflicts in the state no deliberate policy have been put in place, because children that are born after these sad event they tell you Angwan Rogo is a no go area and all that am happy with the document of the Road map to peace I do hope they will have the wheel to implement.

Q.6 for the record, are you contesting for any political office come 2019 general elections?

Yes ! Am contesting but I will leave you to suspense because my declaration is not yet official, we are consulting.

Details of the declaration will be available in few weeks

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I see more of incompetent people around the governor than competent hands- Architect Hart Bankert