Zamfara governor removes 19 perm secs for failing competence test

The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle has approved the removal of 19 permanent secretaries in the state after they failed a competence test conducted by the state government.

Matawalle, who announced the removal of the affected personnel in a broadcast on Thursday night, said he had reduced the number of permanent secretaries in the state from 46 to 27.

He said those affected would be redeployed to parastatals as Directors General or Executive Secretaries.

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He said: “The government has reduced the number of permanent secretaries from 46 to 27. This was however, done after a written and oral tests for all the existing permanent secretaries.”

The governor said he has created a new ministry for Security and Home Affairs and also named the newly created Directorates as Lands Matters, Housing and Urban Development, Chieftaincy Affairs, Maintenance and Disaster Management, Intercommunity Relations, Bureau for Public Procurement and Bureau for Public Service.

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