By El-Yakub Dabai, Birnin Kebbi
Kebbi State Accountant General, Bello Ibrahim Nahaliku said Governor Nasir Idris Administration is committed to the socioeconomic wellbeing of the civil servants in the state being stakeholders in the nation building
Nahaliku stated this while addressing Newsmen in Birnin Kebbi.
He stated that Government was not owing workers and pensioners both at the state and local government level.
He stressed that salaries were always paid before the twenty-fifth of every month since Governor Idris took over the affairs of the state on the twenty-ninth of May
Nahaliku noted that because of the Governor’s attitude in responding to issues that would impart positively to the lives of the people funds were promptly released to contractors handling various projects across the state.
He added that completion of the abandoned ultramodern Secretariat would definitely be a thing of joy to civil servants especially those with accute shortage of office accommodation.
” To whom much is given much is expected. Let me emphasize the fact that civil servants in the state have no excuse not to support the Government as its struggle to foster changes in all sectors development”.
“They will do better if they carry out office work diligently with every sense of patriotism” Said the Accountant General.
He further made a clarion call ” My call to project supervisors is that, they should ensure contracts execution are carried out according to the bill of quantity and specification”.
“They should know that if they compromise standards it might cost our lives and properties especially in the areas of substandard roads, bridges, classrooms, offices amongst many others”
On the issue of palliatives, Nahaliku said funds were already set aside for the purchase of tonnes of assorted grains for distribution to several households.
He stressed that, “This will compliment the supplies received from the Federal Government.meant to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal”.
The Accountant-General who is also the Amirun Zoromawa charged traditional rulers to call on civil servants with traditional titles in their domains and were occupying sensitive government offices to be responsive in the discharge of their schedules.
