Ben Agande

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has debunked a purported memo addressed to the Head of Service proposing the retrenchment of staffers of Kaduna state government as ‘fake and forged document’.

Kaduna state Governor, Nasir el-Rufai

The social media in the state has been agog with the said memo which alleged that the governor of the state, Mallam Nasir El Rufai had directed the compilation of some staff of the state government for retrenchment.

But in a statement issued in Kaduna, the spokesperson to Mallam El Rufai, Samuel Aruwan said the memo was a ‘calculated mischief by the opposition meant for political gains ahead of Saturday governorship election.

“Our attention has been drawn to a document suggesting rationalization and conversation (sic) of civil servants to casual staff, by the Kaduna State Government. To set the record straight, the document in question is fake, forged and never emanated from the Governor.

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“It emanated from the opposition who have no selling points instead outright resort to mundane and gutter politics ahead of Saturday election which they have certified failure.

“It is on this note that we wish to disassociate the Governor and Government of Kaduna State from this criminally minded document by the drowning opposition.

“By this notice, we wish to inform our workforce and citizens to disregard the entire contents of the fraudulent document. We also wish to alert members of the general public to be vigilant of this nefarious activity of drowning political mongers” the statement said.