The Kano State House of Assembly has invited two Commissioners who served
\nunder ex-Governor, Malam Ibrahim shekarau to answer questions over a N7
\nBillion road project that was awarded during Shekarau\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n
A source from the House told Pointblanknews.com that the contract was not
\nexecuted, \u201cbut they took the money; we want to know what they did with tax
\npayers money.\u201d<\/p>\n
The source further noted that the road project was awarded without due
\nprocess because, \u201cit was a verbal directive which is against the working
\nof government.\u201d<\/p>\n
The probe process which commenced by the summoning\u00a0 of immediate past
\nCommissioners of Works and Housing, Alhaji Sarki Labaran as well as Musa
\nIlliyasu Kwankawso of Rural Development, has already had generated
\npolitical tension between the Kwankwaso and Shekarau\u2019s camps.<\/p>\n
The House which brought before it the two former Commissioners as well as
\ntheir former permanent Secretaries alleged that Shekarau through the
\nministry of rural development and Works awarded the over N7 billion road
\nof projects and however the job up till today has not been done.<\/p>\n
Reading the Notice of Motion of the House, the Legislative Chamber deputy
\nMajority Leader Yusuf Babangida, alleged that money were been paid to the
\ncontractor for not doing the job even before he mobilized to site while
\nthe roads are still laying fallow without been executed.<\/p>\n
The Roads according to the House are Tattarawa-Jalli which was allegedly
\nawarded at the cost of 1.5 billion and the job has not been done, than
\nKonar Kira, Ungogo to Fanisau at the cost of 3.5 billion and over 350
\nmillion was allegedly been inflated.<\/p>\n
The other road according to the House is Takai, Rimi to Magami which was
\nsaid to have been awarded at the cost of 2.5 billion and the work is still
\nongoing while the contract sum was said to have been duly paid to the
\ncontractor.<\/p>\n
The House accused former Governor Shekarau of awarding the Contract
\nverbally without the consent of the relevant bodies who are staff of the
\nMinistries involved, adding that all the job which monies were paid have
\nnot been done and all the contract sums of over N7 Billion have been paid.<\/p>\n
However, the summoned Former Commissioner of Rural Developmebnt, Musa
\nIlliyasu Kwankawso told newsmen as he stepped out of the Legislative
\nChamber that, \u201cwhat is happening is nothing but politics they are not
\nhappy that Shekarau is getting Ministerial post, but they cannot do
\notherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll they are asking are nothing but speculative issues and we are fully
\nready for them, they should come with concrete evidence then we know they
\nare serious, the entire job we did followed diligent due process and we
\ndid them with the due sense of humility and law.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see they are not even comprehensive in their actions because
\nthey were asked to tarnish Shekarau\u2019s image, but they have failed and the
\ngreatest failure will come in 2015 when we will chase them and their
\nred-caps away from Government House,\u201d Musa Illyasu concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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