Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has expressed displeasure over poor state of facilities at the state refuse management agency and road traffic agency, KAROTA, saying his administration will not condone waste of public funds due managerial negligence.
The governor while in an unscheduled visit to the agencies over the weekend, lamented the deplorable condition of their operational vehicles, which he said is due to negligence on the part of the management of the agencies despite huge sum of money injected to them by his administration.
According to him it is disheartening that only seven out of 30 waste evacuation trucks are operational in the sanitation agency.
He lamented that a large number of operational vehicles were grounded at the traffic agency.
Yusuf, who ordered the management of the two agencies to submit a comprehensive inventory of their equipment under their control, said he will ensure total overhaul of the two agencies to ensure they live up to expectations.
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“I have ordered the management teams of the Refuse Management and Sanitation Board (REMASAB), and Kano Road Traffic Agency (KAROTA), to submit a comprehensive inventory of their equipment to ascertain the poor state of facilities under their respective control”.
“These orders are after my unscheduled visit to the two government agencies on Saturday afternoon, where I lamented the inefficiency in the management of facilities and personnel of the agencies”.
“At REMASAB, I discovered that there are just seven functional waste evacuation trucks despite the availability of 30, just as three payloaders are working out of the 15 available. While at the KAROTA head office, I discovered that a significant number of operational vehicles were grounded”, tweeted Yusuf.
Assuring his resolve to address the challenges facing the agencies, the governor said he will coopt the management team of the agencies to roll out possible solutions.
“I am not happy with what I saw at the two agencies, and we shall implement a total overhaul of the system, as we cannot afford to fail in the discharge of the mandates of agencies like KAROTA and REMASAB.
“We shall, alongside their management teams work to address the immediate challenges of the agencies”, he added.
