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Governor Zulum Sacks Health Commissioner

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The removal of the health commissioner was part of the measures to reposition the ministry.

Governor Babagana Zulum has sacked Dr Salihu Kwaya-Bura, the Borno State Commissioner for Health.

The sack is contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the governor on Public Relations and Strategy, Isa Gusau.

According to Gusau, the removal was part of measures to reposition the ministry.

”The governor has directed his Chief of Staff, Isa Marte, a Professor of pharmacology and fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science with specialty in cancer research, to oversee the affairs of the ministry pending the appointment of a substantive commissioner.

Zulum expresses gratitude to Kwaya-Bura for his immense contributions to the development of Borno public health sector in nearly two years of the current administration and the years he had served under the previous administration” Gusau said.

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