Modalities for operations of the 16 development areas in Nasarawa State would soon be announced by the government, the state commissioner for justice, Malam Suleiman Nchi, has said, stressing that government has no intention of scrapping the development areas.

He said that a bill in this regard would be forwarded to the state House of Assembly for the necessary legal backing.

Malam Nchi stated this penultimate weekend at Angwan Yara in Rinze Development Area where he represented the state governor, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma at a civic reception in honour of Honourable Kasim Isa.

Honourable Isa was recently appointed member of the governing council, Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa.

Malam Nchi said the Governor Aliyu Akwe Doma-led administration in Nasarawa State has no plans or intention to scrap the development area as being speculated in some quarters.

He said, rather, the state government would provide necessary enabling environment for the development areas to operate along side the 13-local governments of the state.

Malam Nchi said the Governor Doma-led administration would in concert with other states of the federation continue to lobby the National Assembly for the constitutional recognition of new local government areas in the country.

He said, as a people-oriented administration, the state government would do all that was necessary to see that the electorates in Nasarawa State realized their dream of having additional local governments.

The commissioner said that the government remained unshaken in its resolve to improve the lives of the people, particularly the rural dwellers.

He said the state government would remain dogged in its determination to provide the basic infrastructure needed to make life better for the people.

Malam Nchi urged particularly youths in the state to embrace the economic empowerment programme initiated by the state government, which he said, was aimed at making them become self-reliant.

He also cautioned the youths to shun any politician who would seek to use them to cause crisis in the state.