BREAKING: El-Rufai sacks 99 political appointees
Nasir El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, has fired nearly 90 of his political appointments.
El-Rufai stated that his administration will cut the size of the state’s civil service, but that government appointees will be the first to depart.
This was said by the Governor during a media engagement with journalists in Kaduna on Thursday night, revealing that disengaged political appointees make up 30% of political officeholders.
‘’So far, 99 political appointees have lost their jobs but we have not commenced rightsizing civil servants,” the governor said.
“We want to be fair with regards to civil servants. We had earlier promised that before we reduce the size of the civil service, we will start with political appointees and we have done that.”
El-Rufai, speaking in Hausa, stated that the rightsizing of governmental officials will continue as planned due to the state government’s diminishing federation account income.
According to him, the rightsizing began with political appointments because their specifics are well known, making disengagement easier.
‘’However, civil servants with question marks on the veracity of their data have to be given a chance to clear the doubts before any action is taken on them,’’ he clarified.
