‘No voter card, no salary for Musawa council staff’
From MU’AWUYYA B. IDIRS, Katsina

MUSAWA local government council in Katsina state has vowed not to pay any of its staff salary who did not register in the ongoing voter revalidation exercise.
In addition, the council will not pay any contractor handling projects in the area who has no voter card.
The council chairman, Dr. Lawal Aliyu Musawa revealed this while receiving the state Mobilization committee on the Revalidation of Voter Register in his office.
Musawa, who spoke through the vice chairman Alhaji Tanimu Isma’ila Kira, said the local council took the decision considering the importance attached to the exercise.
He said all arrangements have been put in place by the council to ensure the success of the exercise.
Already, Dr. Kiru said, two committees to mobilize people on the importance of the exercise have been inaugurated.
The chairman of the mobilization committee, Justice Abdullahi Garba Faskari, commended the council over the arrangement on the exercise.