The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission appear to have begun the probe of the administration of the immediate past Governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema.
The Commission on Tuesday invited four officials of the Katsina State Government to clarify issues related to financial misappropriations in the last four years of Shema in power.
That is between 2011 and 2015.
The state Governor, Alhaji Aminu Masari, had since inauguration complained about the handling of the finances of the state by the immediate past administration.
Masari had hinted of the possibility of inviting the country’s anti-graft agencies to look into the state’s finances.
The probe of the state’s finances by the EFCC was contained in an invitation letter issued by Aminudeen Muhammad, an official of the Commission, on behalf of the Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde to some officials of the Katsina State Government.
The officers affected include Permanent Secretaries of the Ministries of Works and Agriculture; the Managing Director of the Katsina Road Maintenance Agency and the State Accountant General.
The EFCC directed the officials to come with documents of contracts awarded between 2011 and 2015, annual budgets from 2011 to 2015 and actual funds released to the ministries/agencies from 2011 to May 2015.
The EFCC also directed the officials to appear before it with documents for funds allocations made to the state and local government councils from the Federation Account between 2011 and May 2015.
The statement said the officials should provide documents for funds released to the Ministries of Agriculture, Works, Housing, Transportation and Sports.
The documents should also contain funds released to the KASAROMA and statutory budget of the state between 2011 and May 2015.
The Accountant General is expected to appear before the commission on June 17, while it will be the turn of the Managing Director of KASAROMA and the two permanent secretaries on June 18.
NAN.
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