Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai recently fielded questions from reporters in Kaduna. He spoke on various issues ranging from challenges of governance to modest achievements he has recorded so far in office.

There is a lot of apprehension amongst civil servants that your public service reform programme is aimed at retrenching workers. Can you clarify what the reforms are all about?


People usually worry when you talk of public service reforms because of retrenchment and so on. I think if people have been very discerning as far as this government is concerned, we’ve been a job creating government, not a job destroying government. I think we are the only state in Nigeria that has hired 5,000 people in its first year in office. We also brought back 800 retired nurses because we have a shortage of nurses in the state. We brought them back to mentor the younger nurses. We have not retrenched since we came.

We have verified and removed ghost workers, but that is not retrenchment, that is removing those that don’t exist. Though we have added 5,000 people to the payroll, we still spend less on salaries and allowances than when we came into office. The purpose of this reform has nothing to do with retrenchment. We call it public service revitalisation programme.

The qualification of those in service is not commensurate with the level of education in Kaduna state. You see many people who joined the service after secondary school, they just attend one course and they convert when you have people with degrees and HNDs looking for work. One of the key objectives of the programme is this renewal. How do we inject new, young blood into the service.

How do we get new skills? You have confidential secretaries who are used to typewriter . Nobody uses typewriter any more. You need new skills. The world is changing, even education is evolving. Skills have disappeared, new ones are coming in, we have young people out there with these skills and they are not in the service. Bring them so that the skills that you have, match with the people of the right age. You revitalise the service, you make it better.

The way and manner public servants think needs to be restructured. We are called public servants, but we don’t behave like public servants. We behave like lords of the manor, we behave like masters. You need to take all various grades and cadre of the public service for a reorientation programme for them to understand that they exist to serve the people and not the other way round.

All these are the key components of the programme. We have no intention of retrenching any one; of course, some people will lose their jobs because some have fake certificates. Someone sent me the name of a person through Whatsapp with the photocopy of his degree certificate from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and said governor, it is fake, check.

I asked the commissioner for education to check, the certificate looks as good as my ABU certificate but it was fake. They said the name has never registered in ABU. But he has a proper ABU certificate and NYSC discharge certificate and he is working in one of our agencies! So one of the things we are going to do as part of this reform is to cross check things like that as there are many people with certificates that are fake. If you find such a person are you going to leave him in the service ? There are people who have three birth dates.

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Aregbesola style? Borrow N200bn and create 200 jobs?

this is one of those moments where you ignore all a person has said n just want to curse the stupidity in that person


yeye governor... you are also a jobloss government

Just wait for Shehu Sani. We would like to hear from him.

i liked this man before but now i dont know y i hate him so much





EL rufia amend ur ways before it is too late




the guy below me xup

if say u de close to me, I for knock you

Oya coman goan show us the job

Mallam El'rufai, how many nigerians don benefit from your job creations?

Sibrah:
Aregbesola style? Borrow N200bn and create 200 jobs?

Oga, sure say na the samd thing article me and you read abi where Aregberascal and 200bn comot from?



Well, the mallam made some sense here, upgrade in ghe civil service is needed.

Oga el-rufai, ur people will prefer security and peace before this your 'the more you dey look, the less you dey see job'.

Elrufai for this statement you have lost it completely

God will destroy Aregbesola alike

Why dwarfs dey talk like this....??
When u were a minister under PDP how many jobs did u create?

Creating for your families and people who are close to you abi?

May thunder fire you. What job is he talking about? Mortuary attendants? Cos with this death creating Govt. The only job they create is Mortuary attendants. Bunch of buffoons.

Typical politician. Positioning to be President nothing more. Even though with nothing to offer but misery via demolition of property of hard working Nigerians

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Elrufai you nothing but a tribal and religious bigot

Our people say that the man who eats a coconut whole must respect his anus.
This man has eaten ten coconuts. We will watch him shit them out. 2019 is coming.

Kaduna people must feel like idiots for voting this short fowl into power. This is someone who licked Assholes for a living. Licked Atiku's butt to become head of bpe then betrayed him, Licked Obj's unwashed butt, Licked buhari and amechi's nasty booty holes right into power. 2019 is coming.

LAYAZZZZ

This midget call El-Rufai can lie sha. The same man who employed his youth corporate girlfriend as a Director and placed her on N1m per month salary way back in 2003. Onyioshi

Yeye propaganda...

We are not foolz any longer

change tactics bro Rufai

Creating jobs for drivers of bulldozers for what you know how to do best

Niccur jus said "they are a job creating government" heheheh!!!!!!

Sumtym silent is the best ans for a fool.....

Sibrah:
Aregbesola style? Borrow N200bn and create 200 jobs?

Lools

Lol
This guy don fall my hand sha. With his satanic document on religion.

He is a jiadist. Secretly fighting for Islam. Wont be surprised if he is fingered in the sponsoring of boko haram

sassiemyk:
May thunder fire you. What job is he talking about? Mortuary attendants? Cos with this death creating Govt. The only job they create is Mortuary attendants. Bunch of buffoons.