Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi
state, says Mohammed Abubakar, his predecessor, expended N2.3 billion on
funeral materials in five months.
Speaking through Ladan Salihu,
his spokesman, the governor said the money was spent between January and May.
According to him, about 900
million was spent on white cloths to wrap corpses and another N1.4 billion for
buying wood to lace the graveyards.
He said the government has
“documentary evidence” to substantiate the allegation.
“This money which ought to have
been appropriated by the state House of Assembly before expenditure, all of a
sudden emanated from our treasury books,” he said.
“How could you imagine that a
state government, within five months, that is, between January and May, 2019,
spent well over N2.3bn on funeral materials, dresses for wrapping dead bodies
and the woods that you lace the graveyards with.
“All these are captured in the
report of the transition committee and these were gathered from documents and
vouchers and payments made from our treasury books. There is the Freedom of
Information Law, use it and find out for yourself from those documents.”
Salihu said the government would
use every means possible to retrieve the funds “stolen by the last
administration”.
“Government will take stern
measures; we will recover every kobo that has been looted or stolen by the
immediate past administration and, in fact, the administration before it. Where
it is established that there is a clear case of misappropriation or outright
stealing of public funds, it’s an obligation, you don’t allow criminality to
run roughshod on the rest of us because these are public funds,” he said.
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com