Borno State Governor sacks Health Commissioner

The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum has sacked his Commissioner for Health, Dr Salisu Kwaya-Bura, while as at the time of filing this report, no reason was provided for the sudden sack

Penpushing reports that, before his appointment as the Health Commissioner, Kwaya-Bura was the Chief Medical Director of the State Hospital Management Board, but the Special Media Adviser to the Governor Isa Gusau, said the commissioner’s sack was part of a move to reposition the health sector.

“Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has relieved the state’s commissioner of health, Dr Salihu Kwayabura, of his position.Governor Zulum’s directive was part of the necessary measures to reposition the Ministry’, Gusau said in a statement.

“Governor Zulum expresses gratitude to Dr Salihu Kwayabura for his immense contributions to the development of Borno’s public health sector in nearly two years of the current administration, and the years he had served under the previous administration’.

“Governor Zulum has directed his chief of staff, Professor Isa Hussani Marte, who is a professor of pharmacology, a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science with a speciality in cancer research, to oversee the state’s ministry of health pending the appointment of a substantive commissioner,” the statement said.

Penpushing also reports  that top government sources, however, said the sack of the commissioner may not be unconnected with recent employments the state made in the health sector, while it is recalled that the state government had last year employed 694 doctors, nurses and other health workers to boost the lean workforce in the sector.

The source said the sacked commissioner was accused of favouring larger number of his people in the southern part of the state than other zones in the list the Governor approved for employment.

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