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Bala Bantex: Kaduna Declares Monday Work-free Day
...To pay tributes to the departed Deputy Governor

The Kaduna State Government has declared Monday, July 12, as a work-free day in honour of the late former Deputy Governor of the state, Architect Barnabas Yusuf Bala, a.k.a. Bantex.
Special Adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Media and Communication, Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye, disclosed this in a statement issued in Kaduna on Sunday.
The public holiday would avail Kaduna citizens and residents to pay tributes to the departed former deputy governor, the government said..