The Kano State government yesterday revealed it will spend at least N33 million as bereaved allowances to 664 deceased civil servants. Family members or heirs of the dead will receive the money. The Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba said.
Garba, in a statement, disclosed that the state Executive Council (Exco) at its weekly meeting held at the Africa House, Kano gave the approval to pay “bereaved allowances.”
“The Kano State Executive Council has given approval for the payment of N33 million as bereaved allowances to 664 deceased civil servants of various grades in the state who passed away from 2017 to February 2021.
“The payment of bereaved family allowance due to their families/heirs for the civil servants who died in active service is in line with extant civil service rule,” Garba said.
The Commissioner mentioned other approvals, including those for the payment of N80 million one-year allowances from a backlog of four years’ bursary allowances to the 59 MBBS, B.sc Masters and PhD. Kano State-sponsored students at the Near East University, Cyprus.
He said the council also directed the government verification team to authenticate the students and their academic performance before the implementation of a recommendation for payment by instalments of the cumulative sum of over N1.1 billion as of November 26, 2020, to the university in two tranches of 50 per cent.
Malam Garba announced that as part of efforts to improve health care delivery services, the council has given approval for the provision of uniforms (yards) for 17, 480 members of staff of various health cadres at the cost of N194 million.
He listed some of the beneficiaries of the two sets of uniforms to be provided to include doctors, nurses, midwives, laboratory scientists, technology/technical assistants, image scanning/radiographers/x-ray technicians, physiotherapists, technical assistants, dental therapists/technical assistants, and dieticians/nutritionists, among others.
