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Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, has urged Governor Abba Yusuf to extend his probe to 1999 and 2003 and then 2011 to 2015, when his political godfather, Rabiu Kwankwaso, was Kano State governor.
In a statement he personally signed, Abbas noted that those two periods were when 70 per cent of the government’s properties were sold or fraudulently allocated to friends and families.
He noted that the judicial commission of inquiry set up by the state government to investigate Ganduje, his wife and others, ought to have started from 1999-2003 and 2011-2015 when 70 per cent of government properties were sold or fraudulently allocated to friends and families.
“Interestingly, the sharing of the state assets happened right under the nose of Abba Kabir Yusuf when he was the Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport.
“From 2011-2015, the controversial five-kilometre road projects in the 44 local governments were awarded and only for the funds to be misappropriated without the project being executed.
“During the same period under review, over N3bn was also earmarked for a particular project but misappropriated by Kwankwaso during his Presidential Campaign in Lagos when N70m was released by each local government.”
The Kano APC said besides Kwankwaso, the government should also probe the 44 local government council chairmen who served during Kwankwaso’s administration.
