Jubilation as Buhari's Ex-Minister Hadi Sirika Gets Fresh Appointment

Jubilation as Buhari's Ex-Minister Hadi Sirika Gets Fresh Appointment

  • Hadi Sirika has been appointed as a member of the Katsina State Security Trust Fund Committee
  • Dikko Radda, the state governor, announced his appointment to the committee at an event in the state on Tuesday
  • The committee is to generate funds that would support the government's efforts in its fight against the insecurity in the state

Katsins, Katsina - Hadi Sirika, the former minister of aviation under the administration of ex-president Muhammadu Buhari, has received a fresh appointment from the Katsina state government.

According to Trust Radio, the former minister was appointed as a Katsina State Security Trust Fund Committee member.

Hadi Sirika/Muhammadu Buhari/Dikko Umar Radda/Katsina State Security Trust Fund
Former Buhari's minister received a fresh appointment from home state Photo Credit: Hadi Sirika
Source: Twitter

Katsina inaugurates state security trust fund committee

The committee has been saddled with the responsibility of mobilising funds that will support the state's efforts in confronting the security challenges in the state.

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Others included in the committee are Sen. Ibrahim Idah, Alhaji Dahiru Mangal, and Sen. Abu Ibrahim.

Speaking during the inauguration, Dikko Radda, Katsina governor, said the committee would be chaired by Abdullahi Faskari, the Secretary to the state government.

List of People in Katsina State Security Trust Fund Committee

According to Radda, the commissioners for Information, Finance, Security and Home Affairs, Head of Service in the State, special advisers, Internally Displaced Persons and victims of banditry are committee members.

He said other members are Emirs of Katsina and Daura as well as the state chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria.

He added that the Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office, will serve as the committee's secretary.

The governor urged the committee to identify the state's prominent indigenes and corporate organisations that would help with funding support and suggest areas where funds should be deployed.

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The rep who labelled Nigeria Air fraud asked me for a bribe from the ex-Buhari minister.

Legit.ng earlier reported allegation by Sirika that the lawmaker who declared the new Nigeria carrier as fraud demanded a bribe from him.

After listening to stakeholders on the new carrier, the House of Reps Committee on Aviation chairman at a public hearing, Nnolim Nnaji, declared Nigeria Air a fraud.

But Sirika, in an interview on Sunday, disclosed that the lawmaker had demanded a 5% share of the aviation project from him.

Source: Legit.ng

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