The Kano State House of Assembly has commenced probing Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankawso’s predecessor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, over alleged verbal award of N7billion road contracts, a deviation from due process.
The probe, which commenced by the summoning of Mallam Shekarau’s two key commissioners, those of Rural Development and Works and Housing, Musa Illiyasu Kwankawso and Alhaji Sarki Labaran respectively, has already generated a lot of tension between the two camps.
The House, which brought before it the two former commissioners as well as their former permanent secretaries, alleged that Shekarau, through the Ministry of Rural Development and Works, awarded the over N7 billion road projects and the jobs had not been done to this day.
Reading the motion of the House, the deputy majority leader Yusuf Babangida alleged that money was paid to the contractors for the jobs even before they mobilised to site, and that most of the roads are still undone.
The roads, according to the House, are Tattarawa-Jalli which was allegedly awarded at the cost of N1.5 billion, and Konar Kira-Ungogo-Fanisau road at the cost of N3.5 billion. The projects were allegedly inflated by over N350 million.
The other road according to the House is Takai-Rimi-Magami which was said to have been awarded at the cost of N2.5 billion and the work is still ongoing while the contract sum was said to have been duly paid to the contractor.
The House accused Shekarau of awarding the contracts verbally without the consent of the relevant bodies, who are staffers of the ministries involved, adding that all the job for which monies were paid had not been done and all the contract sums of over N7billion had been paid.
However, the summoned former commissioner of Rural Development, Musa Kwankawso, told newsmen as he stepped out of the Legislative Chamber that “what is happening is nothing but politics; they are not happy that Shekarau is getting a ministerial post, but they cannot do otherwise.”
“All they are asking are nothing but speculative issues and we are fully ready for them; they should come with concrete evidence, then we know they are serious. All the jobs we did followed diligent due process and we did them with the due sense of humility and law.”
Musa Illiyasu Kwankawso noted that, ‘ you can see they are not even comprehensive in their actions because they are horridly asked to tarnished Shekarau names, but they have failed and the greatest failure will come in 2015 when we will chased away red caps’.
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Source: Leadership
