Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state, has sacked the commissioner of health, Dr. Salihu Kwayabura with immediate effect. Kwayabura was Secretary of the Borno state high-powered committee on prevention and spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that claimed 36 lives.
In a statement yesterday (Tuesday) in Maiduguri, Special Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Isa Gusau disclosed that Zulum’s directive of sack, was part of measures to reposition the Ministry of Health fight COVID-19. He said the Governor has also directed his Chief of Staff, Prof. Isa Marte to oversee the ministry of Health, pending the appointment of a substantive commissioner.
Zulum relieves Borno’s health commissioner, asks Prof Marte to oversee ministry, pending the appointment of a substantive commissioner. According to him; “Zulum has expressed gratitude to Dr. Kwayabura for his immense contributions to the development in Borno’s public health sector for about two years. “The former commissioner, had also served under the Sen. Shettima previous administration, before yesterday’s sack.” He said that Prof. Marte is a professor of pharmacology and a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of with specialty in cancer research.
