The Kaduna State House of Assembly reaffirmed its position on the report, released yesterday, which accuses former Governor Nasir el-Rufai of diverting a sum of N423,115,028,072.88. The House of Assembly said that the few political appointees who held a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday were trying hard to discredit the House and hide the alleged fraud by the el-Rufai government.
However, the House clarified that these appointees only spoke for themselves and not for anyone else.
The House stated, “If they genuinely have the interest of Kaduna State and are truly men and women of integrity, they would have applied themselves to developing the state instead of participating in the alleged pilfering of its scarce resources.”
Henry Magaji, the Chairman of the Fact-Finding Committee and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, stated, “The attention of the Kaduna State House of Assembly has been drawn to a press conference addressed by some senior political appointees of the immediate past administration of Malam Nasir El-Rufai.
“In the press conference, the former political appointees made strenuous efforts to pick holes in the report of the Probe Committee. They resorted to name calling and wild allegations on the motivations for the House Probe. We wish to state as follows:
“The press conference was just a rehash of the vituperations and innuendoes heaped on us by the former political appointees in their first press briefing. There was nothing new that should warrant our response.They failed to address the main issue, which is the systematic and coordinated cornering of the resources of Kaduna State through phoney contracts and outright looting.”
