Kano adopts panel report on KUST

Kano State Executive Council has adopted the white paper report of the visitation  panel to the Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil part of the adoption include the constitution of an inter-agency investigative panel to look into the issue of non-remitted pension contributions of staff in the institution.

This was just as the council also adopted the recommendation of the draft white paper on the visitation panel to Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kumbotso for the upgrade of the College to a State University of Education (KSUE).

Disclosing this on Monday, while briefing pressmen on the outcome the council’s weekly meeting held at the council chamber in the Government House, Kano, the state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba stated  that the council directed that a panel should be constituted to investigate the entire outstanding liabilities and audited accounts of the university to recover  lost resources and sanction  erring officers.

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According to him, the governing council has also been directed to institute disciplinary procedures against the Vice Chancellor and Bursar in line with public service rules and extant laws of the university.

He further announced that the council had approved the proposed bill for the establishment of Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital under the Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano, and the transmission of the same to the state House of Assembly for passage into law.

He also revealed that the council had received a memo announcing the completion of the Hydro Electric Power Project at the end of April, this year and that it is ready for commissioning.

Malam Garba said the state head of Civil Service had therefore been directed to source for qualified and experienced staff within the service for the deployment to the Kano State Hydro Electric Power Development Company (KHEDCO), the agency that is supervising the station.

The commissioner added that the council had approved the reviewed bill of quantity and augmentation of the sum of N12, 219, 747.31 million which brought the revised contract sum to the tune of N36, 343, 150.40 million for the repair and renovation of the components fire damaged hostel block at the Government Secondary School,  Kwankwaso in Madobi Local Government Area.

Other approvals by the council, he said, included the ratification of approval for the conduct of workshop training in respect of 900 civil servants at the sum of N40, 500, 000 million; rehabilitation of Kwanar Kwankwaso-Kwankwaso Road, Madobi Local Government Area and the contract for the reconstruction of Kuidawa (Tashr Gambo)-Jalli Town-Tattarawa/Jalli Road in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area.