RESOLUTION OF THE JIGAWA STATE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL HELD ON THURSDAY 7TH DECEMBER, 2023

1.The State Executive Council has today Thursday 7th November, 2023 deliberated and approved the establishment of Whitepaper/Implementation CommitteeontheVisitation Panels/EnquiryonFourTertiaryEducational Institutions in the State (College of Education Gumel,College of Education and Islamic Legal Studies Ringim, Jigawa State Polytechnic Dutse and Bilyaminu Usman Polytechnic Hadejia). The membership is asfollows:

Head of the State Civil Service –Chairman

AbdullahiHudu(SpecialAdviserEducationMonitoring–Member

Abdullahi Shehu (State Accountant General) –Member

Muhammad Nasir (Sule Lamido University) –Member

Lawan D. Baba (PS Ministry of Justice) –Member

Naﬁsa Halliru (Partnership for Transforming Education)-Member

Yusuf Maigari (Former Director, MDI) –Member

Saﬁya Muhammad Malam Madori (Former PS Edu.)-Member

Oﬀice of the Secretary to the State Government –Secretariat.

2.Similarly, the Council has approved the establishment of Whitepaper/Implementation Committee on the Review of Drug Revolving Fund(DRF)and Free Maternal,Neonatal andnChildHealthcare (FMNC) Program innHealthnSector Statewide.The Committeemembership comprised the followings:-

Isa Suraj (Technical Adviser on Health-Chairman

Pharm. Ali Garba Dandidi –Member

Pharm. Usman Tahir –Member

Alh. Aminu Dan-Mallam (Former Director PHA) –Member

Sule Muhammad (National DRF Consultant) –Member

Musa Mu’azu (CSOs Coalition for Health)-Member

Certiﬁed Accountant from oﬀice of the StateAG-Member

OﬀiceoftheHeadofServicetoserveasSecretariat–Secretary

The Council has also assigned the two Committees with responsibilities to review in details the initial committee’s reports and to come up with speciﬁc Action Points/Modalities on each of the accepted recommendations in the reports submitted to theCouncil.

3.The Council has received a report of the investigation panels on Health Training Institutions (College of Nursing and Midwifery and College of Health Sciences Jahun. Similarly, the Council has deliberated on the Memo presented by the Commissioner Ministry of Health and constituted a Whitepaper/Implementation Committee to come up with speciﬁc Action Points/Modalities on each of the accepted recommendations in the reports of the investigation panels on Health Training Institutions. The committee has the following membership: -

Garba Muhammad Dutse FCA (StateAuditorGeneral)–Chairman

Usman Adamu (Director Legal Draft MOJ) –Member

Babangida Lawan Roni (SSA-PrimaryHealthCare)–Member

Yakubu Muhammed Auyo (FormerDirectorPHC)–Member

Abdul Ibrahim (PS Deputy Governor’sOﬀice)–Secretary

The Committee has been given two weeks to submit its reports to the Council.

4.The State Executive Council has approved the award of contract for the Installation of Solar Mini-Grid at the Dutse General Hospital at the sum of One Hundred and Seventy-Two Million, Seven Hundred andFifty-Four Thousand One Hundred and Fifty-Eight Naira (N172,754,158.00) only. The Council decision is line with His Excellency, Malam Umar NamadiFCA administration’s commitment to improve the standards of General Hospital in the State for eﬀective health servicedelivery.

The Council during its deliberations has approved the award of contract for theEstablishmentofFumigationChamberatMaigatari,ExportProcessing Zone. The chamber will help in the development of Hibiscus value chain in line with His Excellency, Malam Umar Namadi FCA administration’s eﬀort to boost Hibiscus production in the State to meet the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) requirements to ensure that the product is optimally developed and made ready for exportworldwide.

5.The State Executive Council approved the distribution of 91no. of Tricycle Machinestoteemunemployedyouthasanempowermentloanatthecostof TwoHundredandFiftyThousandNaira(N250,000.00)only per unit and it each beneﬁciary is expected to deposit the Sum of Seventy Thousand Naira (N70,000.00) only while a balance of One Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira (N180,000.00) will be paid within 12 Months i.e. N500 daily (N15,000,00 monthly). Similarly, the Council has approved the distribution of 50no. Mobile Food Vendors Kitchen as loan to 50 unemployed youthin theStateaspartHisExcellency’sadministrationdrivetoimprovedsmalland medium entrepreneurs and poverty reduction.The beneﬁciaries will be giving FiftyThousandNaira (N50,000.00)asinitialcapitalgrant.Whilethecostof the Mobile Food Vendors Kitchen is N215,000.00 will be paid back to the state within 24Months.

6.The Council has approved the Construction, Rehabilitation and Upgrading of 33no. Small Towns Water Supply Schemes across the 14 Constituencies as captured in the 2023 Constituencies Project at the cost of sum of Three Hundred and Forty-Two Million, Eight Hundred and Forty Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty-One Naira Twenty-Five Kobo (324,840,881.25K) for the Construction, Rehabilitation and Upgrading Projects.

Signed by:

Sagir Musa Ahmed, Honorable Commissioner of Information, Youth, Sport and Culture