Katsina civil servants lazy, says Masari –

Agaju Madugba, Katsina

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has described some civil servants in the employment of the state government as ‘lazy’, a development which, according to the governor, made it inevitable for the administration to hire consultants for a number of jobs.

The governor spoke, on Wednesday, while swearing into office, Alhaji Idris Usman Tune as the new Head of Service for the state.

Tune replaced Alhaji Garba Sanda Mani who retired recently.

“We try to improve on the quality of civil servants so that we remove a lot of these consultancy businesses in the service,” Masari noted, and urged civil servants to update their knowledge through regular training and retraining.

According to Masari, “most of our senior civil servants have basic qualifications to go higher even to…