A
sleeping commissioner who reportedly dozed off during a 2017 Budget
presentation in Yobe state, has been sent home by the angry Governor,
Ibrahim Gaidam.
Governor Gaidam
Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State on Thursday, directed a sleeping
commissioner at the presentation of the 2017 budget to the State House
of Assembly to go home for more sleep.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor had
barely commenced reading the budget speech when the cabinet member
started snoring.
Gov. Gaidam warned that any public officer henceforth caught sleeping stood sacked.
“As from today, any commissioner or special adviser caught sleeping stands sacked and will immediately be replaced.
“We will borrow a leaf from the North Korea experience to make government affairs a serious business,” he said.
Gov. Gaidam while reviewing the budget performance of the outgoing
year paused and directed the sleeping commissioner to go home.
“I am referring to the commissioner who is sleeping, you can go back home to sleep since you cannot endure the session,” he said.
Although the governor did not mention the name of the sleeping
commissioner, he pointed to the row of the commissioners to issue the
directive.
NAN reports that the bewildered commissioners looked at each other
in embarrassment and sat up to avoid dozing and being victims of the
governor’s sledge hammer.
Adamu Dala-Dogo, speaker of the assembly, however, advised public
officers to take beverages that would keep them awake during public
functions.
-NAN
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