KATSINA GOVERNMENT CUTS DOWN EXPENDITURE BY 40%

With many state Governors having over bloated wage bill and high expenditures, the Katsina state Governor has successfully reduced the expenditure of his administration by a whooping forty percent.


The Governor, Rt. Hon. Amina Bello Masari, who served as the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives in the National Assembly, Abuja, has said the state was able to recover lost grounds in several critical sectors including education and agriculture through careful implementation of highly rewarding initiatives.

Masari made this known while speaking at a town-hall meeting for Katsina indigenes living in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja on Monday.

The governor also gave account of the state’s utilisation several intervention funds meant to help assist the government in meeting its obligations to the people.

On the efforts being made by his administration to save costs, Masari said his administration has literally banned foreign travels except for few occasions where its officials were sponsored by external bodies.

"We have made a lot of savings. We hardly go out of Nigeria officially except on sponsorship. None of us at leadership level has so far done that except where interested parties sponsored government officials", he said.
(THISDAY)