Masari can’t be distracted with litigations — Mashi

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State is focused and determined to fulfill his campaign promises and cannot be distracted by unnecessary litigations, a Member of the House of Representatives from Katsina State, Mansur Ali Mashi, has said.

Speaking in Katsina, yesterday, against a purported legal action instituted against Governor Masari by some staff of local governments, Mashi, who represents DutsiMashi at the National Assembly, said the legal tussle was nothing but a ploy to distract the governor from, “aggressively pursuing the implementation of his restoration agenda.”

Mashi said the aggrieved workers were mainly those that refused to avail themselves during a screening exercise conducted in all the 34 local government areas in the state. He said they should have themselves to blame for their predicament.

According to him, “Most of them are the privileged children and wives of well-to-do persons who are staying in faraway places and only collecting salaries and not turning up for work, thereby over-bloating the payroll.

“They are based in Lagos, Kaduna and even Europe; only to be collecting salaries. They are more or less ghost workers,” he said.

Mashi said he was speaking from a position of knowledge and strength, saying he had served in one of the committees that carried out the screening of the workers.

“We waited for days but they failed to come, out of fear; they realised they had been short-changing the state for long. Some of them were receiving salaries but did not even know their unit heads. These are the set of people that have the guts to sue the state government; this is not only laughable but an action in futility,” he said.