ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Committee set up by the Kaduna State House of Assembly to investigate loans, grants, and project implementation from 2015 to 2023, has implicated the former Governor Nasir El-Rufai, and recommended that he should be probed.
The committee was set up during the administration of El-Rufai as the then governor of Kaduna.
While submitting the report during plenary on Wednesday by Chairman of the Ad-hoc committee, Henry Zacharia, it was alleged that due processes were not followed in securing some of the loans.
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It was gathered that the report accused El-Rufai and his commisioners of abuse of office, awarding contracts without due process, diverting public funds, money laundering, and excessive borrowing which left the state heavily indebted.
The report also recommended that El-Rufai and some of his officials indicted by the House Committee, be further investigated by security operatives and anti-graft agencies.
The House Committee while urging for a thorough investigation of key o;fficials who served in the El-Rufai administration, also sought for the immediate suspension of the Kaduna State Commissioner of Finance, Shizer Badda, and the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board.