Sani faults ex-commissioners’ defence of el-Rufai over indictment

Shehu Sani

Rights activist, Shehu Sani, has condemned the group of commissioners under former Governor Nasir el-Rufai, who faulted the recent report of the Kaduna State House of Assembly indicting the ex-governor of financial malfeasance.

He labelled the erstwhile commissioners as accomplices who allegedly looted the treasury and plunged the state into huge debts.

In a statement at the weekend, the former lawmaker submitted: “The people of Kaduna State and the country as a whole should ignore the so-called statement issued by the commissioners of the immediate past administration of Kaduna State,” stating: “The investigation conducted by the Kaduna State House of Assembly is unbiased, comprehensive and evidently backed by facts and figures.”

He added: “It’s sad and unfortunate that people who financially ruined, strangled and incapacitated the state for eight years still have the shameless boldness of disparaging an impartial probe that exposed the systemic thievery and open heist that became the art and science of governance in Kaduna State.”

According to Sani: “Never in the history of Kaduna State or any state in Northern Nigeria has there ever been such a clinical and forensic probe of scandalous, unbridled, gargantuan scale corruption.”

The report speaks for itself in clarity and substance. They should be ashamed of themselves.”