Zamfara to Copy Jigawa on Civil Reformation of Civil Services
From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse
As part of effort to reform the civil services in Zamfara state, the delegation team arrived Jigawa State on mission to tap from the pattern of civil service in the state.
Speaking when the team paid a courtesy visit to governor Namadi at government house Dutse, the leader of the delegation, Committee on Public and Civil Service reforms in Zamfara State, Alhaji Muhammad Bello Umar thanked the Jigawa State Government for hosting them.
He said the visit concerned the Public and Civil Service reforms in Jigawa State, saying: “We are here to learn the positive policies of Jigawa State with regards to Public and Civil Service reforms.”
Bello Umar said Zamfara State wanted to borrow a leaf from Jigawa State using such policies with a view to improving its service delivery.
He emphasised that the choice of Jigawa was largely informed by the giant strides recorded in the area of reforms as such it will not only be good to understudy them but to also share best practices with them.
During the occasion held at Manpower Development Institute two paper presentations were made to the delegation on Public and Civil Service reforms in Jigawa State and Pension reform in Jigawa State by Dr Kabiru Ibrahim, Permanent Secretary Primary Health Care Development Agency and Kamilu Aliyu Musa, Executive Secretary Jigawa State and Local Governments Contributory Pension Scheme.
While making his remarks, Jigawa State Head of the Civil Service, Alhaji Muhammad K Dagaceri, has assured Zamfara State’s Committee on Public and Civil Service reforms delegation of it’s willingness to give all the necessary support and assistance in improving public service performance in Zamfara State.
Dagaceri commended the decision to under study Jigawa reforms experience, saying it is a step in the right direction which more States should emulate, as this would encourage knowledge sharing and better service delivery to the people.
According to him, service reforms in Jigawa State entails poverty eradication, sustainable economic growth through infrastructural renewal and development, adding that infrastructural renewal is not only physical infrastructure but also infrastructural renewal of the mind.
“there is usually a clear policy link between all the initiatives going on in the State and the State Development Plan”, he said.
The event was attended by three former Heads of Service, Alhaji Mustapha Aminu Dutse, mni, Alhaji Muhammad Inuwa Tahir, mni, Alhaji Hussaini Ali Kila, Alhaji Lawan Abdu Babura, mni, Chairman Civil Service Commission, Alhaji Bashir Ado, Special Adviser to the Governor on Salary and Pension, Comrade Abdullahi Tsoho, Special Adviser to the Governor on Labour Matters, Permanent Secretaries Ministry of Justice and Directorate of Salary and Pension, Barrister Lawan D. Baba, Yusha’u Abdu Dutse and the Executive Secretary, Jigawa State and Local Governments Contributory Pension Scheme, Alhaji Kamilu Aliyu Musa.
Others are Permanent Secretary Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Kabiru Ibrahim, Former Permanent Secretary, Directorate of Budget and Economic Planning, Aminu Adamu Ringim Ringim, Malam Abubukar Dalha, State Coordinator, PEARL ARC, Acting Director Establishments and Service Matters, Sadiq Muhammad Gaba, Director Management Services, Ali Sa’ad Dutse, Director Training and Manpower, Abdulkadir Adamu amongst others.
