Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has assured full implementation of the report submitted by the Technical Committee on the State Contributory Pension Scheme.
He gave the assurance while receiving the report of the committee’s findings and observations from the committee members under the leadership of its chairman, Alhaji Rabi’u Zakariyya at Kano Government House Thursday.
On the 23rd November, 2018, Ganduje inaugurated this committee which was assigned to among others examine all the challenges raised in the communique issued at the end of the stakeholders’ conference, held on the 26th-27th July 2018 in Kaduna.
Represented by his Deputy, Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, he stated that considering the composition of the right people involved in the committee, the members had done what is required by the given terms and references.
“The committee has the group of the right persons that are going to do justice to what is required. I therefore wish to thank you immensely for taking your time to come up with the report,” the governor said.
He gave assurance of the administration’s commitment to take rigorous decision to what is been submitted as report of the committee. He stated that…” Your doors are opened for any other assignment that government fits for you to handle because you are always there for the service of the state, country and humanity in general.”
Presenting the report, the chairman technical committee on the implementation of the Contributory Pension Scheme in Kano, Alhaji Rabi’u Zakariyya maintained that upon the inauguration of the committee, the members mobilised for the pursuit of the assignment through examining and interrogating available records.
“It is gratifying to report that Kano is among the very few states in the federation that regularly pay monthly pension to its retirees. By the latest reckoning, the state government monthly portfolio is in aggregate sum of over N1.1 billion for 29,391 retirees as at March 2019,” he stated.
