The Kaduna House of Assembly has hired a human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) to prosecute the former governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai corruption.
Falana will lead a battery of
lawyers to begin unravelling the monumental corruption on Thursday in Kaduna.
Recall that the lawmakers
accused the ex-governor of mismanaging about N423 billion from loans obtained
for the state by his administration.
The report alleged that the
loans were not used for their intended purposes, and in some cases, due process
was not followed in securing the loans.
Mr El-Rufai served as governor
for two terms between 2015 and 2023.
However, the ex-governor had
severally denied the allegations of fraud levelled against him by the state
house of assembly, saying they are “politically motivated”.
The lawmakers in reply,
reaffirmed its position on the allegations of financial misconduct levelled against
former Governor El-Rufai.
The Assembly also denounced the
attempts made by some political appointees, who recently held a press
conference in Abuja, to discredit the House and conceal the alleged fraud
committed by the El-Rufai government.
A statement released by the
Chairman Fact-Finding Committee and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Henry
Magaji, said, “The attention of the Kaduna State House of Assembly has been
drawn to a press conference addressed by some senior political appointees of
the immediate past administration of Malam Nasir El-Rufai.
“In the press conference, the
former political appointees made strenuous efforts to pick holes in the report
of the Probe Committee. They resorted to name calling and wild allegations on
the motivations for the House Probe. We wish to state as follows:
“The press conference was just
a rehash of the vituperations and innuendoes heaped on us by the former
political appointees in their first press briefing. There was nothing new that
should warrant our response. They failed to address the main issue, which is
the systematic and coordinated cornering of the resources of Kaduna State
through phoney contracts and outright looting.”
“If they genuinely have the
interest of Kaduna State and are truly men and women of integrity, they would
have applied themselves to developing the state instead of participating in the
alleged pilfering of its scarce resources,” he added.
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