May 30, (THEWILL) – Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has sacked the Executive Secretary of the State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Muhammad Abba Danbatta, and its Chairman, Sheikh Abdullahi Saleh Pakistan.
The Governor, in a statement signed by his Spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, on Tuesday, approved the appointment of Alhaji Laminu Rabiu as the new Executive Secretary of the Board and Alhaji Yusuf Lawan as the new Chairman.
The new members of the Board are: Sheikh Abbas Abubakar Daneji, Sheikh Shehi Shehi Maihula, Amb. Munir Lawan, Sheikh Isma’il Mangu, Hajia Aishatu Munir Matawalle, and Dr. Sani Ashir.
The statement added that the appointees are expected to take over the affairs of the Board immediately to ensure a successful 2023 Hajj exercise.
Meanwhile, the Governor has set up a Taskforce on Refuse Disposal, Evacuation of Drainages and Streets Cleaning (Operation Nazafa).
“In the coming days, I will officially launch a state-wide campaign with self-help groups to drive the operation. In the next few weeks, all the dumps will be cleared, all our streets will be clean, all our drainages will be desilted and a sustainable system of maintaining the cleanliness and clearing the dumps will be in place,” he said.
The Governor also directed security agencies in the state to immediately take over all public properties sold during the Ganduje administration
“I am announcing, today, that all these public places and assets that were immorally plundered and sold by the Ganduje administration should be taken over by law enforcement agencies, led by the Police, the DSS, Civil Defense, and Hisbah pending the final decision of the government.
“Lands in and around schools, religious and cultural sites, hospitals and clinics, graveyards and green areas, and along the city wall of Kano, as well as other landed properties and assets belonging to Kano State within and outside the state (sold) to their cronies and agents,” he directed.
The Governor said a Judicial Commission of Inquiry would be instituted to ensure that all perpetrators and those that aided and abetted them are brought to justice.
