SPEECHES

Remarks
Charge d’Affairs
Robert E. Gribbin
Embassy of the United States

Remarks for Governor Danjuma Goje 
The Executive Governor of
Gombe State

Gombe
September 20, 2007

Good Morning.  It is a pleasure to be here today in Gombe.  I have traveled to Gombe to meet His Excellency Governor Danjuma Goje, the Executive Governor of Gombe State, and to pay a courtesy call on His Eminence the Emir of Gombe.  I have come to pay my respects as a friend and to listen to people of Gombe State. 

During these past few days I was in Maiduguri and Bauchi to commission an American Corner collection at the University of Maiduguri and to meet with the respective governors of Borno and Bauchi States.
 
While in Maiduguri I also donated eight sets of school books to schools in Maiduguri as we did in Bauchi last June.  Today I will be donating sets of school books to four schools in Gombe. 

Today it is my great pleasure to be here in Gombe, to meet the governor and other prominent citizens and old friends of the U.S. Embassy 

For the United States, these projects and programs reflect the desire to help others pull themselves up by their boot straps as so many enterprising Americans have done in the past.  The programs also represent a strong and growing partnership between the people of Borno, Bauchi and Gombe States and the American people – that is, investing in our common future.

Finally, I would like to wish the people of Gombe State a Ramadan Kareem.