The All Progressive Congress Transition Committee in Kaduna State has dragged the outgoing government to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission for alleged misappropriation of N2.74 billion meant for the Local Government SURE-P.
The information was contained in a statement issued by the Chairman of the committee, Malam Balarabe Abbas-Lawal, in Kaduna on Tuesday.
Abbas-Lawal said: “I write to bring to your attention the elaborate steps being taken by the outgoing Kaduna State Government to legitimise the misappropriation of N2.744 billion Local Government Sure-P funds.
“The Kaduna State House of Assembly declined to appropriate the Sure-P funds in the 2015 budget, and promptly removed them from the budget submitted by the 23 local government councils.
“The state legislators further resolved that the fate of the funds be left to the incoming administration.”
It alleged that the outgoing Governor, Ramalan Yero, however, had been putting the legislature under tremendous pressure to approve his utilisation of 50 per cent of the Sure-P funds.
The statement said the desperation and lobby on the part of the government was clearly not in the public interest.
It called on the commission to urgently investigate whether the fund was still intact or it has been spent without appropriation.
The statement said that if the money had been spent, it was important to know the projects, the contractors and the procurement processes that facilitated such a deliberate spending of public funds.”
Meanwhile, the state government has refused to clarify the issue as the Director-General, Media, Ahmed Maiyaki, has refused to respond to enquiries on the matter.
NAN.
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