Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has sworn in new cabinet members and permanent secretaries in the state.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Enlightenment, Media, and Communications, Zailani Bappa, disclosed this in a statement
Kabiru Balarabe and Kabiru Mohammed took the oath of office as Secretary to the State Government and Head of Service respectively, while the governor also inaugurated 18 new commissioners and 11 new special advisers.
The appointees were said to have been inaugurated after they swore that they had no involvement in the ongoing banditry in the state.
In his remarks, Governor Matawalle asked the appointees to brace for what he described as the new beginning an era of consolidating the gains recorded in the last two years of the administration.
The governor, however, warned them that his administration would not condone laxity or complacency at a time when bandits were being routed and stated that the progress recorded so far was due to the recent stringent measures taken to curb the activities of bandits in the state.
According to Governor Matawalle, hundreds of the bandits are already on the run after many of them have been killed and others arrested along with their collaborators.
