Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe has disgraced a commissioner in his cabinet who fell asleep and was snoring heavily just as he was presenting the 2017 Budget to the State House of Assembly. The governor simply asked the offending commissioner to proceed home for more sleep.
Governor Gaidam thereafter warned that any public officer henceforth caught sleeping would be 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.”
Governor 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.”
Although the governor did not mention the name of the sleeping commissioner, he pointed to the row of the commissioners to issue the directive.
The bewildered commissioners looked at each other in embarrassment and sat up to avoid dozing and being victims of the governor’s sledge hammer.
This was even the speaker of the House of Assembly, Alhaji Adamu Dala-Dogo, rose to the occasion to offer unsolicited advice, asking public officers to take beverages to keep them awake during public functions. [myad]
