By Rauf Oyewole
The Bauchi State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Comrade Usman Danturaki has said that the State Executive Council did not scrap the Ministry for local government and chieftaincy affairs, saying that the Commissioner for Justice will be overseeing the affairs of the establishment.
Earlier in the morning, the Governor, Bala Mohammed had said that while implementing the judgment of the Supreme Court on local government autonomy, he would not be deploying commissioners to the ministry henceforth.
Mohammed announced this on Monday shortly after swearing in three newly appointed commissioners to replace those who resigned to contest the August 17 local government election.
The Governor said that the state will now be working towards reducing the cost of governance and “shrinking establishment”.
“We have dropped one of our commissioners –the former commissioner for health, (Dr. Adamu Sambo) because we have to reposition ourselves. First to reduce the cost of governance, shrink the establishments of the government and to implement the judgment of the Supreme Court on local government.
“We will no longer have a commissioner for local government henceforth,” he said.
Danturaki while briefing journalists at the end of the Executive meeting, said that the Ministry remains and would be coordinated by the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the State.
The last commissioner for local government and chieftaincy affairs, late Ahmed Aliyu Jalam, was involved in a road crash about four months ago. Two others resigned to contest local government elections in August.
Former Chairman of Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (BACATMA), Sani Mohammed Dambam has been posted to the Ministry of Health, Zainab Babatakko for the Ministry of Women Affairs and Child Development and Engr. Mohammed Abdulkadir for the Ministry of Commerce.
Also, a retired AIG, Dr. Ahmed AbdulRahman was sworn in as the Chief Security Adviser.
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