Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle of Zamfara State has ravaged twenty one out of his forty seven permanent secretaries and declared the creation of seven new Directorates within the state.
According to a press release by the state government, the affected secretaries were discharged for being unqualified for the position.
A report by the committee constituted for the restructuring of the state officialdom submitted to Governor Matawalle on the ninth of Oct 2019, the committee said it’s worrisome that the state that has solely seventeen ministries and fourteen local government areas may be in operation with forty seven permanent secretaries.
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Governor Matawalle in a very broad broadcast, additionally declared that he accepted the recommendations for the restructuring of ministries from the present nineteen to eleven.
“It accepted the recommendations for the restructuring of ministries from the present nineteen to eleven. However, once careful thought, the govt. has approved the subsequent ministries:
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Similarly, additionally to the present Directorates, the govt. has approved the institution of the subsequent new boards and Bureaus: board of Housing and concrete Development; board of Lands and Survey; board of place Affairs; Directorate of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development; board of Labour Matters; board of Inter-community Relations; Bureau for Public Procurement; Bureau for Public Service Reform.
“Another thorny issue addressed by the report of the Committee on Restructuring of the officialdom is that of the amount of our permanent secretaries vis a vis our scarce resources. All assessments have shown that our state contains a so much larger range of permanent secretaries than any of our sister states within the north-west, speech that with forty seven permanent secretaries, the system has become saturated and loaded down.” ‘
‘The Restructuring Committee, therefore, invited all the permanent secretaries and subjected them to a written check and interview so as to assess their competence” “Based on the end result of the assessment, solely twenty five out of the forty seven qualified for retention as permanent secretaries.”
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The Committee additionally counseled the appointment of 1 further person, in recognition of his good, as a permanent secretary, transfer the amount of the permanent secretaries counseled to twenty six, stressing that the white book committee accepted the recommendations
“As for the permanent secretaries World Health Organization didn’t qualify for retention government would contemplate those found eligible for appointment as career administrators General, Managing administrators, govt Secretaries, Secretaries and different applicable positions.”
