Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State on Thursday signed an executive order reducing the state ministries from 28 to 16 to improve quality services.
The Director General, Media and Communication, Office of the Governor, Malam Nuhu Anka, made this known.
The statement by Anka said Lawal noted that the restructuring of government ministries and agencies is aimed to reduce cost of governance and improve quality service delivery.
“The restructure is to realize the rescue mission of Lawals’ administration in the state,” he said.
The restructuring will also affect other government departments, agencies as well as parastatals with a view to ensuring effectiveness, functionality and avoid redundancy.
Lawal affirmed that people of proven integrity and hard work will be appointed to man the ministries for enhanced governance that would develop the state.
“The restructuring policy will create more opportunities and provide more jobs for citizenry and solidify government operations,” the statement explained.
The Governor, therefore, urged people of the state to support government policies and programmes.
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“Our people should also continue to pray for the restoration of peace and tranquillity in the state,” Lawal added.
Sit-at-home: Enugu confirms arrests of enforcers
The Enugu State Government says it has tracked down some hoodlums who were enforcing illegal weeklong sit-at-home in the state.
The Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday.
According to him, those engaged in scaremongering through fake videos and images had been tracked down, apprehended and were being brought to book.
Onyia directed offices, schools, business premises, markets, including Ogbete Main Market, among others, to disregard sit-at-home on Friday and open for business.
The SSG warned that failure to comply with this directive would be deemed as willful undermining of government’s policy and efforts to restore full working days, productivity, and entrepreneurship in the state, and will as such be met with appropriate sanctions.
He said: “The Enugu State Government wishes to remind citizens and residents of the state that work, business, schooling and other legitimate endeavours will continue on Friday, July 7, 2023.
“Government urges members of the public to disregard any scaremongers and go about their businesses, as security measures are fully in place to continue to enforce law and order and safeguard lives and property.
“It is noteworthy that many enemies of Enugu State and Igbo land, the hoodlums, anarchists, and criminal elements, hide under freedom agitation to perpetrate destruction, violent crimes.
“We are winning the war and therefore call on Ndi Enugu to volunteer information to the authorities on any suspicious person and movement as well as those who use the social media to spread rumours and instigate panic among the members of the public.”
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Simon Ekpa, had declared one week sit-at-home in the South East to press for the release of IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, by the Federal Government from July 3 to 10.
