Yari is accused of diverting N500m and $500,000 from the Paris Club refunds made by the Federal Government, in favour of the 36 states of the federation, to personal use.<\/p>\n
He said he would formally write the Federal Government to complain about the antics of the commission`s Chairman, Ibrahim Magu against other governors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am going to \u200ewrite to the Federal Government that enough is enough; that either the EFCC does its work or we do a show down with it,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
He said while governors on the forum`s platform were in support of Federal Government`s stance against corruption, they were, however, opposed to the commission`s style of fighting the menace.<\/p>\n
The governor urged EFCC to concentrate on the fight against corruption rather than the pursuit of personal vendetta.<\/p>\n
He stressed that no governor would walk into any bank\u2019s strong room in connivance with its officials, or deep his hands into public coffers as was being alleged by the commission in some cases.<\/p>\n
The NGF Chairman said it was unfortunate that the EFCC, in most instances, acted on petitions sent to it without conducting proper investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t just because somebody wrote a petition, then, you say you are working on it without doing your own due diligent investigation,\u201d Yari said.<\/p>\n
Speaking on project implementation in states, the governor said; \u201cI believe EFCC\u200e does not have its own engineers to quantify to know what is exactly on ground\u201c.<\/p>\n
He said project cost deferred from state to state because of their different geographical terrain. \u201cA project that is done in Rivers for N2 million, in Zamfara, it will be about N150, 000.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou cannot say the price of things in Rivers should be the same in Zamfara or somewhere else.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019The terrain is entirely different so is the cost and risk which should be taken into consideration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The governor further said if the commission suspected that any state project was over-inflated, it should engage the services of a quantity surveyor to ascertain the true position of thing.<\/p>\n
According to Yari, there is a procedure for every project to be executed by any governor before a contract is awarded.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike in Zamfara, we have finance and general purpose committee which is in charge of tender and some states have tender board where the work is initiated from.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is documentation, memo raised, approved by the council and finally assented to by the \u200egovernor. \u201c<\/p>\n
He said governors were ready to support the commission, adding, however, that properly, thing must be done in the course of fighting corruption in the country.<\/p>\n
He advised the commission to ensure proper investigation for effective fight against corruption in the country to have meaning.<\/p>\n
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