- Heads of coys, higher institutions now jobless
- Revokes sales of public properties
- To institute Judicial Commission of Inquiry
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT – As expected, the Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, popularly known as Abba Gida-Gida, has made the first set of appointments with Hon. Shehu Wada Sagagiis as his Chief of Staff.
The appointments, conveyed in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, on Monday, also indicated that aside from Hon Sagagiis, the Governor also named Abdullahi Baffa Bichi as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG).
Others on the list of appointed officials are Dr. Farouq Kurawa – the Principal Private Secretary and Hon. Abdullahi Ibrahim Rogo, who will serve as the Chief Protocol
According to the statement, the appointments take effect from today, Monday 29th May 2023, adding; “The appointees were selected based on their track records, commitment and loyalty”.
Meanwhile, the Governor, who took his Oath of Office earlier on Monday, has since made bold public pronouncements, including firing some government officials appointed by former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
In a signed executive order released to the media, Governor Yusuf directed that “all political appointees heading government MDAs and companies are hereby relieved of their appointment with immediate effect.”
Similarly, all boards of Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs), companies, and institutions of higher learning have been dissolved with immediate effect.
Furthermore, he directed security agencies in the state to immediately take over all public properties sold by the government of his predecessor, saying; “I am announcing, today, that all these public places and assets that were immorally plundered and sold by the Ganduje administration should be taken over by law enforcement agencies, led by the Police, the DSS, Civil Defense, and Hisbah pending the final decision of the government”
Among the properties referred to by the executive order are; “lands in and around schools, religious and cultural sites, hospitals and clinics, graveyards, and green areas, and along the city wall of Kano”, as well as other landed properties and assets belonging to Kano State within and outside the state to their cronies and agents.”
Additionally, the new administration said a Judicial Commission of Inquiry would be empaneled in the coming days “to ensure that all perpetrators and those that aided and abetted them are brought to justice.”
The Governor said all the actions that would be taken in the next few days were targeted at “resetting the state and repositioning it on the path of honour and dignity, respect and responsibility, as well as on the path of progress and prosperity.”
