Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed Appoints Dan Fodio University Ex-Don, Ibrahim Kashim SSG

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Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed Appoints Dan Fodio University Ex-Don, Ibrahim Kashim SSG

Barely 24 hours after announcing the immediate past Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning as his Chief of Staff, Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala

Abdulkadir Mohammed, early Tuesday morning, announced the appointment of Barrister Ibrahim Muhammad Kashim as the Secretary to the State Government (SSG).

Kashim, who is a former lecturer at the Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, replaced Mohammed Sabiu Baba, who was last week sacked by the Governor alongside other members of the State Executive Council (SEC).

The appointment of the new SSG, which takes immediate effect, was contained in a statement signed by the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Governor, Mukhtar Gidado.

Gidado disclosed that Kashim held a LL.B, BL, LLM and Masters in Business Administration and various Post Graduate Certificates in Management, Administration and Economic Reform and Divestiture from many institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States.

“He hails from Bauchi Local Government Area of the state. He is a legal practitioner, a former lecturer at Dan Fodio University Sokoto, a public servant and a policy expert.

“He retired in 2015 as a Director in the Presidency (Bureau for Public Enterprises) where he headed various departments and acted as the Director General.

“Upon retirement, Barrister Kashim ran a consultancy outfit, Kauthar Resources Nig. Ltd and had consulted for various transport sector committees of both houses (Chambers) of the National Assembly, House Committee on Commercialisation and Privatisation and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council.

“He is a registered member of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), a non-profit, non-partisan private sector led think tank with a mandate to promote and champion the reform of the Nigerian economy into an open, globally competitive economy,”

Gidado stated.

The new SSG was in 2020 appointed as the pioneer Director General, Bauchi State Bureau for Privatisation and Economic Reforms, an agency set up by tge Governor Mohammed’s administration to resolve, reform, restructure and grow the state’s economy.