The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) led government in Kano state planned to misappropriate local government funds amounting to over N8,080,190,875.13 billion.
Kano APC Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas in a statement issued Tuesday said the political uncertainty on what would be outcome of the Supreme Court judgement on the disputed gubernatorial election appears to be pushing the NNPP government to usurpation of the functions of local governments.
He said: “The APC in Kano has gotten a copy of the letter of conveyance of approval from the ministry for Local government directing the 44 local councils to release the sum of N101,655,000.38 million and N3,607,370,858.00 million each for the construction of Dan’Agundi and Tal’udu Interchanges respectively.”
Abbas pointed out that the approval letter, which was sent to all council’s chairmen, copied to the Auditor-General, local government audit and all zonal inspectors of the ministry, was for the contribution of the councils to the projects..
He, therefore, warned local government councils and commercial banks to halt the process of clearing the release of the funds at this critical period of the NNPP’s unreliability.
The Party Chairman noted that last Friday, the government removed and posted new Directors of Personnel Management (DPMs) and treasurers to ensure that there are no hitches in muscling the local councils through the embezzlement of their funds.
He stated that the decision to embark on such projects at this time has come under attack even by people within the NNPP’s fold and called on the government to reconsider it in the interest of the development of Kano state.