The Kano State Government has laid off 3,234 staff who were found not eligible to be employed into the Civil Service and enrolled on its payroll, while approving the reinstatement of 9,332.
The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Abudullahi Baffa Bichi, made this known while briefing journalists in his office yesterday.
He said the development followed the government’s decision on the report of the committee on screening and verification of employment conducted by the immediate past administration.
He said: “The verification committee report was received by the government and its salient observations and recommendations were noted and accepted. The majority of the employment was not captured in the 2023 approved budget and a significant percentage of those employed had neither applied nor indicated interest to serve, which form a major aspect of employment requirement.”
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“Most of those employed did not undergo processes of screening and recruitment interviews as expected by the service regulations; have suspicious or forged certificates, while many non-indigenes were employed in spite of a large number of qualified unemployed indigenes,” he said.
He maintained that the employment did not take into consideration the actual manpower needs of the respective MDAs but was influenced by the desire to tie down the new administration financially.
