The Kaduna State House of Assembly has established a committee to scrutinize the financial transactions of the state during the tenure of the former governor, Nasir el-Rufai.
The House, during Tuesday’s plenary set up the fact-finding committee, tasked with looking at loans, grants and project implementation from 2015 to 2023 — the period in which el-Rufai presided over the state as governor.
The legislative panel would also investigate El-Rufai’s top associate and senior counselor on investment Jimi Lawal.
The panel was mandated to also invite notable personalities including the former speakers of the 8th and 9th Assembly, commissioners of finance, former managing directors of Kaduna markets, commissioners of budget and planning, among others.
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Recall that on March 30, Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna, said his administration inherited a debt of $587 million, N85 billion, and 115 contractual liabilities from the el-Rufai administration.
Sani also maintained that he has not borrowed “a kobo in the last nine months”.
He, however said the huge debt burden is eating deep into the state’s share of the monthly federation allocation.
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