Support Governor Idris for more development- Kebbi Commissioner

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By El-Yakub Dabai, Birnin Kebbi

The Kebbi State Commissioner of Finance, Abubakar Muhammad, Garkuwan Kaura, has called on members of the opposition parties to close ranks with the Governor Nadir Idris led administration in order to build a prosperous state.

The Commissioner while addressing newsmen in Birnin Kebbi said the call became necessary taking into consideration catalogue of purposeful achievements the governor recorded in less than a year in office, saying the best the people of the state would do was to show maximum support to his policies and programmes.

Garkuwan Kaura said the governor had lived above board by promptly paying salaries, retirement and death benefits as well as leave grants to the working class in the state as mark of respect to his former constituency as a teacher and union leader within the ambit of civil service.

“It is a known fact that civil servants in the past have lived lives of frustration especially when they retired. Their benefits would linger for several years and some would even die waiting for their entitlements. Those who survived would either end up with stroke or depression.” The Commissioner revealed.

He however went further to say “things have changed positively with the coming into office of Governor Nasir Idris. He had settled the backlog of unpaid entitlements. What we do now in the Ministry is to pay every retiree his entitlements the month he leaves service, but must have completed necessary documentation.”

The Commissioner said within few months in office the state capital had witnessed quantum infrastructural transformation while farmers and the public were showered with farm inputs and implements as well as associated foodstuff for stomach infrastructure, describing the gestures commendable.

Garkuwan Kaura therefore called on the people of the state irrespective of political, ethnic and religious affiliations to support the unrivaled developmental projects of Governor Nasir Idris in order to take the state to higher heights of development as well as join hands in celebrating his one year in office.