Katsina State has
commenced the payment of salary arrears to over 700 reinstated
workers. The payment is being carried out by the committee earlier constituted
by the Governor and which included state auditors, chaiman Local
government administrators forum, salary section department of
the state among others.
According to KATSINA
POST, this development follows the screening exercise earlier done by the
committee.
The payment is
scheduled to hold for three days starting with Katsina Zone then Funtua Zone
and then Daura Zone.
In a related news,
Katsina State Government has awarded N118 million contract to enhance
irrigation activities at Ruwan-Sanyi dam in Malumfashi Local Government Area.
The Deputy Governor,
AlhajiMannir Yakubu, stated this during an inspection tour to ascertain the
quality of completed canals undertaken in a different contract awarded
by government.
Yakubu, who is also the
state Commissioner for Agriculture, urged youths to utilise the opportunities
of suitable lands to embrace agriculture.
He appealed to the
people to participate in rice cultivation schemes as government had placed
restrictions on rice importation to the country.
He said the government
would soon start to distribute fertiliser and other inputs to improve
irrigation farming in the state.
He said he had visited
various canal construction sites where he saw that Ruwan-Sany
contractor had done a good job in providing water to farms.
The deputy governor
enjoined farmers to protect power generating sets and the canals against all
forms of vandalism.
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