<div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">The Kaduna House of Assembly has received a report from the ad hoc committee that looked into all contracts, loans, and finances during the tenure of previous governor Nasir El-Rufai.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">It also orders probe of the immediate administration, alleging siphoning of N423Billion naira.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">During the plenary on Wednesday, the ad hoc committee chairman, Henry Zacharia, presented the report to the house on Wednesday, June 5.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">He claimed that most of the loans obtained during El-Rufai’s administration were not used for the purpose for which they were intended and that in certain instances, due process were not followed in obtaining the loans.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">Yusuf Liman, the Speaker of the Kaduna House of Assembly, alleged that the El-Rufai government embezzled N423 billion, leaving the state burdened with enormous obligations.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">Therefore, the committee recommended that security and anti-corruption agencies look into and prosecute El-Rufai and a few other indicted members of his cabinet for abusing their positions of authority by awarding contracts without following the proper procedures, diverting public funds, money laundering, and heavily indebting Kaduna State.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">The committee also suggested that the state universal basic education board chairman and Kaduna State Commissioner of Finance, Shizer Badda, who held the same position under El-Rufai, be suspended immediately.</div> <div dir="auto"></div>
