A Thinking Governor

GOVERNOR ABUBARKA BADARU OF JIGAWA STATE ADVICE TO GOVERNOR'S,
Mr. Abubakar advised other
governors to cut expenditure
in order to overcome the
embarrassment of owing staff
salaries.
He said once the workers were paid and
happy, any state could move forward
and be productive.
”In Jigawa, we are not owing salaries. In
fact we always pay on the 25th of every
month whether the federation account
comes in or not.
”We are not owing either local
government or state salaries and we are
not owing pension. In fact pensioners
collect on the 13th or 15th.
”We are not owing gratuity as well. We
are really very clean as far as staff
welfare is concerned and even this week
or next week, we’ll be paying the annual
leave grants as promised.
”The magic is being prudent. You just
have to do what you think is good for the
people.
”Paying workers is of paramount
importance and we have to sacrifice all
what we do to be sure to pay our
workers because workers have to remain
focused.
”We do a lot of cost savings and employ
cost saving techniques to reduce
expenditure of the government.
”For instance in the government house,
the expenditure has been reduced by as
much as 80 per cent, while general
overhead has been reduced as much as
47 per cent.
”The security vote has been reduced as
much as 87 per cent. We use only 13 per
cent of what they normally used.
“So, all those expenditure that have no
direct bearing to the common man have
been reduced drastically to give room
for service to the people.”