By Mohammed Suleiman, Dutse
The Jigawa state Executive Council has approved the release of Three Billion, Four Hundred and Twenty-Two
Million, Two Hundred and Thirty-Nine Thousand, only for payment of 1,331 Civil Servants retirement benefits and death gratuities through the Jigawa (State and Local Governments) Contributory Pension Scheme.
On the recent flood affecting 13 LGA’S in the state, the State Executive Council sympathized with the people over the flood incident in some parts of the State describing the unfortunate incidence as flash flooding due to high velocity of rain fall in some Local Government Areas.
The areas affected are: Auyo, Buji, Birnin Kudu, Guri, Gwaram, Hadejia, Kafin Hausa, Kirikasamma, Ringim, and TauraLGAs.
The government took a number of far reaching measures to curtail the situation by providing adequate working materials and embarked on actions to minimize the flood effect through pumping out storm water with hydro pump equipment in the effected settlement to reduce the risk, according to the State Emergency Management Agency.
Support communal effort of sands bagging at critical places to address the devastating effect of flood that submerged houses and farmlands.
Support the flood victims by providing adequate emergency relief items as part of rapid response mechanism by the government to provide immediate support to various communities
The flood victims, it explained , were moved to a safer place with all needed support such as food and non food items as well as full medical attention and portable drinking water.
And In line with the State Government effort to address current economic hardships by subsidizing foods items and fertilizer to the poor, vulnerable and local farmers, the Council approved the distribution of various commodities across the newly established palliative shops in the 27 LGAs.
The Council suspends the distribution of the palliative shops’ commodities in 7 LGAs (namely, Babura, Birnin Kudu, Gumel, Hadejia, Kazaure, Kirikasamma and Kiyawa) where government stores were vandalized during the recent protest in some parts of the state particularly at stores owned by JASCO, JARDA & SEMA respectively until further notice.
The Executive Council approved the closure of JASCO and JARDA stores in the above LGAs until when Government is satisfied with the safety of items to be delivered in the affected areas. Moreover, the Council has approved the temporary closure of the vandalized State Skills Acquisition Centers in Babura and Birnin Kudu.
It approved the release of The sum of Three Billion , Eight Hundred and Thirty Million Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira(N3,830,560.000.00) only for the payment of Tuition Fees, Administrative Charge and Value Added Tax (VAT), Accommodation, Security Deposit, Living Allowance, Resident Permit and Health Insurance in respect of 185 Jigawa Sate Students studying at Near East University,
Cyprus for 2024/2025 Academic Session.