Stop Gov. Yero from looting, Kaduna APC begs EFCC

Governor Muktar Yero

Governor Muktar Yero of Kaduna State

Femi Adi/Kaduna

Governor Muktar Yero of Kaduna State
Governor Muktar Yero of Kaduna State

Kaduna All Progressives Congress, APC Transition Committee has sent a pre-emptive petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alleging plans by the outgoing Kaduna state Governor, Alhaji Mukhtar Ramalan Yero to steal N2.744 Billion SURE-P Fund.

In a 15 May letter signed by Chairman of the Transition Committee, Alhaji Balarabe Abbas Lawal and addressed to EFCC Chairman, the APC Committee raised alarm over the attempt by the outgoing Kaduna State Government to legitimise what it termed,” The misappropriation of N2.744 billion Local Government Sure-P Fund”.

According to the Committee, EFCC should exercise its responsibility of deterring crime by preventing the last-minute looting of public assets.
While stating that the Kaduna State House of Assembly had earlier declined to appropriate the Sure-P fund in the 2015 budget and promptly removed it from the budget submitted by the 23 local government councils, it noted also that the state legislators further resolved that the fate of the fund be left to the incoming administration.

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Lawal also claimed in the letter that the outgoing governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero has been putting the legislature under tremendous pressure to approve his utilisation of 50 per cent of the Sure-P fund for a road project, while the 23 local government councils would share the balance.

“Coming from a government whose tenure expires in less than two weeks, the intensity of the lobby for the money indicates a certain desperation that is clearly not in the public interest.”

Lawal requested the EFCC chairman to urgently investigate whether the Sure-P fund is still intact, or spent without appropriation.

He said that if, as widely believed in the state, the monies have already been spent, it is crucial to determine the projects, the contractors and the procurement processes that facilitated such a deliberate haemorrhaging of public funds.

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