The Kano State Government established a 22-member committee on Wednesday to screen and verify the employment of 10,800 civil servants who were allegedly fraudulently recruited by former governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s administration.
Inaugurating the committee, the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Baffa Bichi, said the government found it necessary to set up the committee in order to investigate the last-minute employment of the affected civil servants without following the laid-down rules and regulations governing employment in the civil service.
“Government views this as an anomaly and, therefore, resolved to set up a committee to study and review the entire process, with a view to determining whether or not the employment process was informed by the expressed manpower need and requirement of the affected MDAS or are just based on certain primordial considerations suggesting nepotism as alleged.”
In his remark, the chairman of the committee and a former Head of the State Civil Service, Alhaji Shehu Minjibir, promised to carry out the assignment without fear or favour.