The Kano State Government has suspended the monthly deduction of N370 from all civil servants and pensioners in the state’s salaries and pensions.
The deduction has been suspended with immediate effect, according to the Secretary to the State Government, Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, in a circular to all heads of government institutions, agencies, and parastatals issued on Monday but sighted by Daily Trust on Tuesday, pending the conclusion of an investigation into the process that led to its initiation.
The deduction was reportedly initiated by the government of the immediate past governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and all deductions were reportedly deposited into an account of a company called Share Benefit Investment Limited.
Government has observed with great concern the inappropriate deduction of the sum of N370.00 each from the salaries and pensions of all civil servants and pensioners in the state and afterwards, remitted to Share Benefit Investment Limited.
In view of this, His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Kano State, Alh. Abba Kabir Yusuf has granted approval for the immediate suspension of the deductions as well as the remittances being made to the aforementioned firm pending investigation into the circumstances that led to the improper deductions, the circular read in part.
The SSG went on to say that the circular was necessary to ensure that the heads of agencies and parastatals adequately informed “all civil servants and pensioners in the state of the executive approval/directive for the suspension of deductions.”
The incumbent governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, had promised to investigate his predecessor’s administration, which had begun with the demolition of structures said to have been erected on public spaces allocated by the previous administration.
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