Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has sworn in four newly appointed permanent secretaries and five director generals in the state civil service.
The governor while performing the swearing-in at the state executive chambers, Government House, Sokoto also revealed the plan of his administration to establish a Civil Servants’ Institution to enable excellent service delivery in the state.
Tambuwal said the gesture is to ensure that the state civil servants are fully equipped in order to sustain the ongoing values of excellent service delivery.
“We have made the decision to establish the institution under the state university or any of our state-owned institutions.
“This is to engage our retired permanent secretaries and other good hands in the state to continue to train our civil servants to sustain the desired mandate of the present administration.
“Moreover, I called on the civil servants in the state to continue given their best to the service of the state, as the government is doing everything possible to make life easy for them,” he said.
He added that despite the dwindling resources in the state, the government has ensured prompt and timely payment of salaries and pension as well as gratuities of retired civil servants in the state.
He said: “So to whom much is given, much is expected. We expect from the state civil servants nothing less than excellent.”
However, for the new appointees, he said, “I charge you to continue with what has made the government appoint you to this very important position.
“That is patriotism, commitment to duty and selflessness. We expect you to use your experience in this position to improve on the service delivery of the state,” he added.
Tambuwal further said that the appointees coming to the service at this time is very challenging and tasking, ”as we are all aware of how states and the federal government are battling with security and economic challenges.
“I congratulate all of you, your appointment is basically made on merit, as such the expectation from you are very high,” he said.
The newly appointed permanent secretaries include Abubakar Dikko, Abubakar Junaidu, Abubakar Sanyinna and Abdullahi Bafarawa.
The new director generals are Kulu Nuhu, Ismail Abubakar, Ibrahim Umar, Sa’idu Ismail and Bello Goronyo.
In a related development, the governor has forwarded three new names to the state House of Assembly for screening as commissioner nominees in the state.
This is according to a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Malam Saidu Umar, and made available to our correspondent in Sokoto.
The commissioner nominees include Professor Aminu Abubakar Illela, who is currently the Provost of the College of Agriculture in Wurno; Honourable Shuaibu Gwanda Gobir, Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Hassan Maccido, a retired Permanent Secretary in the state civil service.
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