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Ex-Bauchi Governor Exposed

Former Governor Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State has been exposed by his successor, Governor Bala Mohammed.

The governor, who spoke through his spokesperson, Dr Ladan Salihu, said;

“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.”

“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.”

“The state government will use every instrument of the law, including petitioning the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission and other anti-corruption agencies on the matter, “until every kobo stolen is returned.”

“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.”

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