No fewer than 100 auxiliary staff of Kano Consumers Protection Council (CPC) have lost their job following change of baton of leadership in the agency.
Recall that Kano state governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje had in April publicly unveiled 100 volunteers who were mostly degree holders as supporting staff to the council on N10, 000 monthly stipends.
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In a sudden twist, the new Chairman of the Council, General Idris Bello Dambazau (retd), took over from Bappa Baba Dan’Agundi, Managing Director, Kano Road and Traffic Agency (KAROTA) as substantive chairman in April, was alleged to have fired the volunteers.
Consequently, the 100 volunteers have petitioned the state governor to investigate the activities of the Council regarding violation of enabling laws that established the Council.
The petition, signed by Hayat A Yusuf, and Usman Rabiu Muhammad, chairman and secretary, explained that the new henchman had stopped their monthly stipend over the past three months.
The volunteers said, “we were part of the success story of the council, illicit drug depots were discovered, and activities of drug barons brought to a standstill by us.”
We are the foot soldiers, and we did our best as a patriot to rid the state of harmful drugs. We spent eight months before we were unveiled by HE publicly with a N10, 000 monthly stipend.
The Volunteers revealed that “Sec 16, 17, subsections 1,2, and 3 of the enabling law that established the Council recognised the volunteers. ”
In a swift reaction to the volunteers claim, Malam Musbahu Hassan, the Information Officer to the Council, said no one was fired.
Musbahu said that “We have not sacked anyone except those who stopped coming to the office, and as I speak with you, we have over 50 of the Volunteers still with us, and we have increased their stipends from N10 000 to N30, 000.
