The Kaduna State House of Assembly, yesterday, said it stood by its report indicting former Governor Nasir el-Rufai of alleged diversion of N423, 115,028,072.88.
According to the House, the few political appointees who
addressed a press briefing Tuesday in Abuja had been making desperate, but
futile moves to denigrate the House and cover up the alleged fraud perpetrated
by the el-Rufai government represented no one but themselves.
According to the House, “If they genuinely have the interest
of Kaduna State and are truly men and women of integrity, they would have
applied themselves to developing the state instead of participating in the
alleged pilfering of its scarce resources,”
Chairman Fact-Finding Committee and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Henry Magaji in a statement said among others, “The attention of the Kaduna State House of Assembly has been drawn to a press conference addressed by some senior political appointees of the immediate past administration of Malam Nasir El-Rufai.
“In the press conference, the former political appointees
made strenuous efforts to pick holes in the report of the Probe Committee. They
resorted to name calling and wild allegations on the motivations for the House
Probe. We wish to state as follows:
“The press conference was just a rehash of the vituperations
and innuendoes heaped on us by the former political appointees in their first
press briefing. There was nothing new that should warrant our response. They
failed to address the main issue, which is the systematic and coordinated
cornering of the resources of Kaduna State through phoney contracts and
outright looting.”
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