BUSTED! How Ganduje recruited 13-year-old, JSS students, non–indigenes into Kano service as governor – Panel Report

By OUR REPORTER, Kano

Aside the generally believed reason of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s beginning of 2027 politics when he is yet footed in 2023, more reasons the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s National Chairman, Mr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, wants to remove Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf as his succeeding Governor of Kano State have emerged.

This was as Kano State Government, on Friday, gave graphic details of how the Ganduje’s immediate past government ran the state at the tail end of his tenure by embarking on a last minute recruitment of staff into the service without recourse to the rules and regulations.

Secretary to the State Government, Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, disclosed this during a press conference to intimate the public on the findings of the verification committee set up to screen the employment of the immediate past administration.

According to him, the committee discovered that they recruited under-aged persons, including a 13-year-girl, whose salaries were paid into her mother’s account.

Bichi regretted that the Ganduje’s expired administration also recruited students of Junior and Senior Secondary Schools, current undergraduates and serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) into the services of Kano State.

He said that the committee also found that majority of those recruited were not captured in the 2023 approved budget while a significant number of them neither applied nor indicated interest to serve with the state civil service.

The Secretary to the Government also revealed that it was discovered that some of the recruits had forged or had suspicious certificates while many of them were non–indigenes in spite of the fact that a number of qualified indigenes were roaming the streets unemployed.

Baffa, however, revealed that the Governor, in his humane disposition, has granted leave for the reinstatement of 9,332 of 12,566 staffers that were found to be eligible by the committee.

He added that those with offers but were not on the payroll would be subjected to further interview while adding that the recruits would be properly deployed to relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for optimal utilization.

He added that those within the service, who were complicit in the breach of the service rules, would be sanctioned according to the rules of the civil service.