The Kaduna State Government has reacted to a report that Governor Uba Sani’s Chief of Staff, Mohammed Sani Kila, was accosted by the management of a hotel in the state over his alleged refusal to pay outstanding bills he incurred.
The reaction was contained in a statement signed by an Officer in the Office of the Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Aliyu Giwa.
In the statement, titled: “The rash of mischiefs against Sani Kila, Chief of Staff to HE Governor Uba Sani,” on Thursday, the state government said the “puerile story is not only false, but also clearly misleading and mischievous”.
According to the statement, the author of the false report is a well-known mischief maker who “intended to impugn and smear the character, integrity and reputation of the Chief of Staff to the Governor”.
The report claimed that Kila had threatened drastic measures against the hotel and its management, including the demolition of the hotel building, for daring to request payment of the outstanding bills he had allegedly incurred.
But the statement noted that Kila, who lives in his personal house in the state capital, Kaduna, “has never either stayed or slept in the hotel as insinuated in the mischievous story”.
The statement explained that the hotel in question was secured for temporary accommodation of the newly-appointed members of staff pending the payment of their accommodation allowances.
This practice, it added, is the statutory rights of newly-appointed public servants in the first 28 days of their being in office.
The state government disclosed that the hotel management, which is familiar with the government procedures for processing such payments and are currently “patiently pursuing their claim”, had since distanced itself from the malicious and false report.
It described the writer of the report as a mischief maker and a “meddlesome interloper” cashing in on the state government’s transaction with the hotel management, adding: “His efforts to make a mole hill out of a mountain have hit the concrete wall of truth.”
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The statement said: “The Office of the Chief of Staff, in pursuit of the open and transparent governance policy of HE Governor Uba Sani, decided to set the records straight to help the author of the mischievous and malicious story to purge his infantile imagination of his self-inflicted pathological abnormality and predilection for mischief and lying.
“There is no doubting the fact that he deliberately set out to mislead, misinform and discredit the efforts of the Chief of Staff.”
The state government, therefore, enjoined members of the public “to disregard and discountenance such outright fabrication and dump the false story in the trash can where it rightfully belongs”.
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