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Bauchi gov appoints 15 special advisers, six heads of agencies

October 27, 2021 No Comments

The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has approved the appointment of 15 special advisers and six heads of government agencies in the state.

The Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, Mukhtar Gidado, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Bauchi, the appointments were based on the track records of the individuals.

According to him, the new appointees had since been deployed to their respective positions.

The special advisers were – Hashimu Yakubu, Prof. Sani Malam, Sanusi Isa, Danladi Danbaba, Abdon Gin, Ahmed Mohammed, and Tukur Adamu.

Others were – Maula Aliyu, Zainab Rufai, Kefas Magaji, USA Babayo, Abubakar Salihu, Abubakar Faggo, Garba Kawu and Adamu Madaki.

The statement read: “The head of agencies were – Babayo Madara, state Rural Water Supply Agency (RUWASS), Dr. Sambo Alkali, Hospital Board and Yalwa Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi Agency for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (BASOVCA).

“Others were – Nasiru Hamma, Chairman, Bauchi State Nomadic Education Agency (BASANE), Dr. Abdurrahaman Idris, Executive Secretary, Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, and Mas’udu Aliyu, Chairman, Drugs Consumables Agency.”

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Bauchi gov suspends children agency’s chief for alleged misconduct

October 19, 2021 No Comments

The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has approved the suspension of the Executive Chairperson of the state’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children Agency (BASOVCA), Hassana Arkila, over alleged misconduct.

The governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mukhtar Gidado, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Bauchi.

He said the chairperson’s suspension which was to pave way for proper investigation into dealings at the BASOVCA took immediate effect.

The statement read: “The suspension order which is with immediate effect is to allow for proper investigation into the affairs of the agency following alleged misconduct.

“Consequently, she (Arkila) is directed to hand over the affairs of the agency to the most senior officer in the organization pending the outcome of an investigation that has been instituted by the government.”

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Fulani group backs Bauchi gov on herdsmen carrying AK-47 rifles

February 19, 2021 No Comments

A Fulani group, the Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-Cultural Association, has thrown its weight behind the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, following his comments that herdsmen carry AK-47 to defend themselves against attacks by cattle rustlers.

National secretary of the group, Saleh Alhassan said in a statement on Thursday in Kaduna State, that Governor Mohammed was the “lone voice among his peers in the North in defence of Fulani herdsmen who are being persecuted across Nigeria.”

The statement titled, ‘His Excellency Abdulkadir Bala Mohammed – Executive Governor, Bauchi State: The gradual emergence of a courageous northern leader’, reads:

Governor Bala Mohammed has treaded where angels are scared to tread in the past.

“He has taken what every politician will consider as political risk in the past by holding divergent views where others have failed or chickened out.

“So, his current position on the herders/farmers conversation is not strange or out of context.

Govenor Bala Mohammed has refused to be like Governor of Benue State, H.E. Samuel Ortom, whose only achievement is the raising of ethnic militia and gang leaders that have been visiting mayhem of killings in his state.

“He has not achieved anything tangible apart from his obnoxious anti-open grazing law in the state.

“Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu will be held accountable for the ongoing genocide against innocent pastoralist and northerners living in the South-West.

“He claims to be a senior lawyer but he has proven to be a disgrace to the legal profession by his actions against Fulani herdsmen in his state in the recent past weeks.

Akeredolu created the Amotekun Corps to unleash terror on herders and Northerners in the south-western states of Ondo and Oyo.

“The Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-Cultural Association stands with H.E Bala Mohammed since he is the only voice who speaks for the Fulani people and his intervention on the ongoing farmer/herders’ conflict was simply to state the obvious devoid of the current politicisation.”