Zamfara Governor Trims Ministries From 28 To 16

Zamfara State’s governor, Dauda Lawal, has reduced the number of state government departments from 28 to 16 through an executive order.

The governor’s spokesman, Sulaiman Bala Idris, acknowledged this in a statement and said the goal of the action is to reduce waste in government and do away with duplication of effort.
He claimed that on Thursday in the Council Chambers of the Government House in Gusau, the governor signed the Executive Order.

Agriculture, Budget and Planning, Science and Technology, Environment and Natural Resources, Finance, Health, and Commerce, Trade and Industry are among the newly approved ministries.

Others are Information and Culture; Justice; Housing and Urban Development; Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs; Religious Affairs; Women Affairs and Social Development; Works and Infrastructure; Youth and Sport; Internal Security and Home Affairs.

Meanwhile, the State Government has fully paid the inherited backlog of workers’ salaries, including that of June.
When he assumed office, the governor had lamented the salary backlog, saying he met only N4 million in a government account.

“I have been running the affairs of the state on debt since I assumed office as governor of Zamfara. I met the treasury account of the state with no money. I only saw a single account with about N3 to N4 million in it,” he had told BBC Hausa in an interview.

“It is about three months now and we are yet to pay the salary of the workers. If you look at all the government agencies, the power supply to the buildings has been disconnected due to the hundreds of millions of debts incurred.

“The security agencies, for three months now, the allowance given to them for their daily operations has not been paid. Currently, students of senior secondary schools have not written their WAEC and NECO exams because the government is owing over one billion naira.”

 

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