FOCUS•4 Commissioners Still Operating After Dissolution Of Taraba Exco.>>> Two weeks after the purported dissolution of Taraba State executive council, only four commissioners and few special advisers are still operating in their various offices. Investigation carried by our reporter yesterday in Jalingo showed that commissioners of the ministries of commerce and industry, social welfare, youth and sports, co-operatives and poverty alleviation as well as environment and urban development are still holding on to their offices, giving out instructions to their subordinates. At the office of the secretary to the state government (SSG), there are indications that Mr Gavey Yaweh is still in the main office at the state secretariat complex, while the other annex office of the SSG situated at Government House, Jalingo, is being operated by another SSG, Barrister Gibon Timothy Kataps, the former commissioner for justice and attorney general of the state before the purported cabinet dissolution. Other ministries whose commissioners had handed over following the directive by the senior special assistant to the governor on media and publicity, Mr Silvanus Yakubu Giwa, are being administered by the permanent secretaries pending further arrangements. When contacted on the latest development, a source at the Government House, Jalingo, who pleaded anonymity, said that the four commissioners and special advisers who were yet to hand over as directed were on their own, saying as far as the state government was concerned, Governor Danbaba Suntai had dissolved his cabinet and the permanent secretaries were in charge. The source further told LEADERSHIP that commissioners who refuse to comply with the directive do so at their own risk, stressing that the state government will not be responsible for the payment of their salaries after the date of the dissolution of the cabinet. In his reaction, the commissioner for social welfare, youth and sports, Alhaji Hadi Haruna Lau, who is yet to comply with the directive, told LEADERSHIP in his office that the purported announcement of cabinet dissolution was a gimmick to hijack the machinery of government by cabals in desperate quest for power.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:07:46 +0000
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