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Speaker of the House of Representatives,\u00a0 Hon Yakubu Dogara, says he is<\/div>\n
\n
resolute in his claim that Bauchi State government under Governor Mohammed
\nAbdullahi Abubakar diverted public funds to the tune of N400 billion from
\nMay 2015 when he assumed office to date.<\/p>\n

His affirmation is in response to a reply issued by the Bauchi state
\ngovernor to the effect that the total\u00a0 receipt from the federation account
\nin the preceding three years is nowhere close to that figure.<\/p>\n

However, the Speaker challenged the governor to take the case to court if
\nhe is sure that the accusations are baseless, adding that an additional
\n1300 workers were also falsely claimed to have been employed by Governor
\nAbubakar in July 2015, making the figure a total of 2500 ghost workers and
\nnot 1200 as disclosed earlier.<\/p>\n

It would be recalled that\u00a0 before Governor Abubakar assumed office in May
\n2015,\u00a0 former Governor Isa Yuguda had employed thousands of political
\nappointees, about 4000, which increased the monthly wage bill of the state
\nto N2.6 billion but on assuming office, Abubakar sacked them all.
\nThis should have automatically translated into drastic reduction of the
\nmonthly wage bill of Bauchi state since no new recruitment into the state
\ncivil service was carried out.<\/p>\n

However, the wage bill skyrocketed to about N7 billion excluding that of
\nthe 20 the local government areas.<\/p>\n

In the same vein, thousands of ghost workers were also added into the
\npayroll of all the 20 Local Government\u00a0 Areas of the state which he
\n(Governor Abubakar) uses to divert their monthly allocations that brings
\nthe total sum of money diverted within the period to N400 billion
\nincluding three payments of Paris Club Refunds and two bailouts the state
\nreceived from the federal government.<\/p>\n

This excludes the internally generated revenue of the state and LGAs which
\nis not accounted for.<\/p>\n

While cautioning civil servants to be careful not to allow themselves to
\nbe used to doctor documents and alter records, Hon Dogara warned that they
\nwill surely be called to account for any such action sooner rather than
\nlater as there are credible reports which indicated that the governor is
\ndesperately working to doctor and alter documents and records\u00a0 to cover up
\nthe monumental fraud and theft of public funds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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