By Managing Editor.
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The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress, APC in Zamfara Mal. Yusuf Idris has accused the PDP administration led by Dauda Lawal of sacking 5,000 workers in the state.
Mr. Idris who stated via statement issued to journalists on Thursday, also alleged that the statement by one of the state lawmakers on the floor of the house on Tuesday the failure of the Dauda Lawal administration to pay workers their salary is fueling insecurity as true reflection of things.
Idris went further to connect the recent outbreak out break of child killer disease Polio Virus type (2) in Zamfara to the negligence of Dauda Lawal administration to end the scourge of killing by bandits in Zamfara state.
He cited the recent statement by his highness the Emir of Argungu Alh Samaila Muhammad mera at the occasion of Northern Traditional Leaders’ committee on Primary Health Care against Zamfara state as alarming.
“It is certainly due to the state government’s negligence and empty bragging to end banditry that the new variant child killer disease known as polio virus type 2 (CVDPV2) continues to spread in the state”.
“The governor had promised to stop armed banditry immediately he won the election as well as improve on healthcare service provision, and these twin critical issues seem to be the first victims of the insensitivity of the administration”.
“The disease that has affected 21 children in Zamfara has also affected 29 others spread across the country in 26 states of the federation and 29 African countries with parents begging for a way out. We are calling on Nigerians to join hands in compelling the governor to stop playing blame politics and act now” Mr. Idris stated.
“The disease cannot be stopped because governor Dauda has refused to fight bandits to their enclaves, making them in charge of the state and creating serious fears for health workers to reach many of the affected communities and administer the polio vaccine to the children”.
Idris stated further “the immediate past governor of the state has offered himself for discussion with added advice that the state government should invite stakeholders to find ways out of insecurity for the safety of people’s lives and property, but the sitting governor retorted with insults”.
“Governor Dauda has in less than three months of his administration sacked 5,000 workers by removing them from the state payroll and denied local government workers their salary which, as observed by one of the legislators on the floor of the state House of Assembly “is fueling insecurity” in the state” Idris stated in his statement.
