- By Halimah Olamide
The committee recommended that el-Rufai be prosecuted along with some other members of his cabinet
A special committee of the Kaduna state House of Assembly has recommended that former Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, should be probed for alleged diversion of public funds.
The chairman of the ad hoc committee, Hon. Henry Zacharia, alleged that most of the loans obtained during the tenure of the former governor were not spent on the purposes for which they were obtained. Speaker of the Kaduna House of Assembly, Yusuf Liman, said that a total N423 billion was siphoned by the El-Rufai’s administration while leaving the state with huge debts.
The committee recommended that el_rufai be prosecuted along with some other members of his cabinet. The committee also recommended the immediate suspension of the Kaduna State Commissioner of Finance, Shizer Badda, who also served in the same capacity under the El-Rufai’s administration, as well the chairman of the state universal basic education board.
It also recommended thorough investigation of some key appointees of the last administration by appropriate law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies.
The committee set up by the Kaduna State House of Assembly was tasked with the assignment of examining loans, grants and projects implementation from 2015 to 2023 during which El-Rufai served as governor of the state.