Kano Offers Employment To Volunteer Traffic Warden

Kano Offers Employment To Volunteer Traffic Warden

Kano State Government has offered a 60-year-old volunteer traffic warden, Umar Haladu Sumaila, an automatic employment as a way to encourage service to humanity.

The State deputy governor, Dr Nasiru Gawuna, announced this while presenting an award to Sumaila at the second edition of NUJ Kano Correspondent Chapel award/appreciation night held at the Bristol Palace Hotel in Kano.

The awardee has been controlling traffic for about twenty years along Court road by Zoo road junction voluntarily so as to ensure that road users enjoy easy passage along the road.

“I am directing the Managing Director, Kano Road Traffic Agency, Baffa Baba Dangundi to immediately employ the awardee despite his age but on compassionate ground, so as to encourage voluntary service to humanity,” Gawuna said.

The deputy governor also presented a certificate, plaque and N20,000 donated by the media professionals to the awardee.

In his remarks after collecting the award, elated Sumaila said he never thought of the moment in his life.

“This is a very important day in my life. I am just assisting road users to ensure that the road is free from gridlock,” he said.