Governor El-Rufai sacks 19 political appointees
The Governor of Kaduna State,Nasir El-Rufai has sacked nineteen political appointees, which is said to be the first set of political appointees to depart in the ongoing right-sizing of the public service.
Penpushing reports that, the Governor’s approval was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Communication to the governor, Muyiwa Adekeye, on Wednesday in Kaduna.
The statement said the disengaged appointees are Bala Mohammed, Deputy Chief of Staff Legislative; Halima Nagogo, Special Assistant; Umar Abubakar, Special Assistant; Ben S. D. Kure, Special Adviser Political; Mustapha Nyusha and Jamilu Dan-Mutum.
Penpushing further reports that,others are Umar Haruna, Special Assistant Political; Zainab Shehu, Special Adviser Social Development; Stephen Hezron, Special Assistant to SAD SD; Mohammed Shuaibu, SSA Stakeholder Relations; Aliyu Haruna, SSA Youth; Halima Idris, SA Creative Arts.
The statement added that, the list include Aliyu Salihu, DG Public Procurement Authority; Ashiru Zuntu, SA Community Relations; Saida Sa’ad, SSA; Elias Yahaya, SA Programmes; Tasiu Suleiman Yakaji, SA to SSG; Samuel Hadwayah, SA Economic Matters; and Ahmed Mohammed Gero SSA Environment
Penpushing also reports that, the statement said the Governor thanked the appointees for their service to the state and wished them well in their future endeavours, just as it is recalled that Rufai on April 12, revealed his plan to disengage some public servants in the state for fiscal reasons.
The Governor argued that a significant amount of the statutory federal allocations is being spent on the wages of public servants monthly, stressing that in view of this, the state government has no choice but to downsize its workforce.
“Therefore, the state government has no choice but to shed some weight and reduce the size of the public service. It is a painful but necessary step to take, for the sake of the majority of the people of this state’,he said.
“The public service of the state with less than 100,000 employees and their families cannot be consuming more than 90 per cent of government resources, with little left to positively impact the lives of the more than nine million that are not political appointees or civil servants. It is gross injustice for such a micro minority to consume the majority of the resources of the State,” Rufai said.
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