Probe Governor Aliyu's N30Billion Street Wire Fencing, Others In Sokoto, PDP Tells EFCC, ICPC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) successful Sokoto State is demanding an probe into the All Progressives Congress (APC) medication of Ahmed Aliyu successful Sokoto State regarding the alleged N30 cardinal declaration for thoroughfare ligament fencing, roundabouts, and different projects.

The PDP wants the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to probe these allegations.

The EFCC and ICPC are liable for combating fiscal crimes and corruption successful Nigeria.

According to the absorption party, the N30 cardinal Sokoto thoroughfare ligament fencing, roundabouts arsenic good arsenic the N1.2 cardinal contracts for 25 boreholes were not appropriated for hence the telephone connected the anti-graft agencies to probe the contracts.

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The connection signed by the party's publicity caput successful the state, Hassan Sahabi Sanyinnawal, and obtained by SaharaReporters, expressed what it called "deep sadness implicit the existent situation, successful which Sokoto authorities is catching the attraction of the full federation for reasons that person ne'er been arsenic antagonistic arsenic during the contiguous APC medication of Ahmed Aliyu."

Lamenting the situation, the Sokoto PDP said, "The existent authorities successful Sokoto has, not adjacent halfway done its tenure, recorded milestones successful mindless and suspicious misappropriation of nationalist funds.

“Apart from the N1.2 cardinal for the repair of 25 boreholes racket and N30 cardinal expenditure connected the erection of ligament fences connected the streets of Sokoto metropolis, adjacent to a cardinal naira has been allocated to the installation of thoroughfare lights successful the authorities capital, adjacent though the poles were aged and repainted.

“Ahmed Aliyu's spending spree includes the allocation of N1.2 cardinal connected the repair of 5 roundabouts successful Sokoto metropolis and different implicit N500 cardinal to erect archways connected each streets starring to the authorities house.

"Governor Ahmed is sustaining the antagonistic tempo by spending an outrageous billions connected the ligament fencing of streets successful Sokoto Metropolis. This is ironically successful 1 of the states that are hardest deed by the effects of the atrocious economical policies of the APC authorities astatine national level.

“We find it regrettable that nether Ahmed Aliyu, Sokoto State is close now, proving to beryllium the pace-setter successful governmental fiscal recklessness. The radical person not gotten implicit the debacle of the governor's spending of N1.2 cardinal connected the repair of 25 boreholes, the rationale for which helium is inactive struggling to explicate to the full nation.

“That is against the unfolding ungraded of the governor's woman trailing the media abstraction for the infamy of partaking successful a reckless day Dollar spray, successful spite of the dire economical conditions of the masses of her state.

"The PDP shares the indignation of the masses of Sokoto State implicit the information that alternatively than addressing this ‘squandermania’, the embattled politician is falling backmost connected his accustomed hopeless but feeble efforts to deflect nationalist choler from his medication done the shadiness chasing ploy of making mendacious allegations against his predecessor, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

“Our enactment is nevertheless bold to asseverate that Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and his full furniture person ne'er shied distant from subjecting themselves to immoderate probe of their tenure successful the authorities of Sokoto state. The erstwhile governor, members of his enforcement assembly and elder officials person willingly appeared earlier the Commission of Inquiry, adjacent though nary tangible advancement has been made successful proving the trumped-up allegations of wrongdoing against them.

"The existent medication of Ahmed Aliyu, whose expenditure illustration is the astir arguable and procurement standards the astir scandalous successful the past of enactment successful Sokoto State. Our enactment deems arsenic the astir unfortunate, facet of these outrageous and achromatic elephant projects, their execution successful full defiance of owed process and the champion practices of procurement.

“Firstly, nary of the task contracts was awarded with the requisite support of the State Executive Council oregon the telephone for tender. The works are carried retired by faceless contractors, who are selected by patronage and according to the whims of the controllers of government.

“The PDP notes that Ahmed Aliyu's mindless squandering of Sokoto state's finances is besides causing interest and drafting absorption from wrong his ain governmental party, the APC, arsenic discontent is accelerated spreading done the ranks of the party.

"The Governor is presently nether a two-week deadline issued by the APC subordinate of the House of Representatives for Gudu Tangaza Constituency, Sani Yakubu, to relationship for the implicit N200 cardinal national allocations to section governments successful the state.

“There is, however, not overmuch to relationship for Ahmed Aliyu's one-and-a-half years regime. All his cosmetic projects are concentrated successful the authorities superior and virtually confined wrong the vicinity of the Government House and GRA.

“The agrarian areas, arsenic Sani Yakubu observed, are wholly neglected, without immoderate improvement task carried retired with their immense allocated funds. The existent authorities successful Sokoto State is without doubt, the astir financially irresponsible medication successful the state's full past of governance, whether subject oregon civilian and should truthful beryllium probed by the applicable agencies.

"Our enactment is therefore, demanding that the EFCC and ICPC should analyse the fiscal practices of Ahmed Aliyu's administration. We are peculiarly calling connected the anti-graft agencies to discharge their statutory work by instantly commencing the probe of the N30 cardinal expenditure connected the ligament fencing of streets successful the authorities superior successful presumption of outgo and procedural propriety.”

“This, our enactment feels, is successful the involvement of fairness and justness to the masses of Sokoto State and Nigeria astatine large.", the connection concluded.

Reports person emerged that contractors handling the operation of 5 roundabouts successful Sokoto metropolis and the N30 cardinal thoroughfare ligament fencing task person received payment, contempt archetypal deficiency of fund appropriation.

This improvement sparked outrage among immoderate authorities Assembly members, prompting the presumption of a supplementary fund of N100 cardinal to the House. In an evident backlash, lawmakers who initially protested were reassigned from their chairmanship positions successful assorted committees.

Notably, Buhari Haliru Yarima, erstwhile president of the House Committee connected Higher Education, was reassigned to Animal and Fisheries, portion Abdullahi Muhammad Randa, erstwhile president of Public Service Matters, was moved to Judiciary, Justice, and Human Rights, sources told SaharaReporters.

Reacting to the allegations, the authorities commissioner for information, Sambo Bello Danchadi, told SaharaReporters that the PDP's allegations were a fallout of the probe of the medication of the contiguous past governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

According to him, the allegations are baseless and cannot beryllium substantiated.

He said, "All the allegations are fallout from the probe by the judicial sheet of enquiry investigating the merchantability of the authorities government's shares worthy N16 cardinal by the erstwhile authorities of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

“On the ligament fences and different allegations, PDP cannot substantiate them and the EFCC and ICPC are reputable agencies that cannot beryllium misled oregon cowed into embarking connected issues that cannot beryllium substantiated."

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