Alhaji Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso demanded N1.3 billion from the Shekarau administration in lieu of the house of his choice that was to be built for him as governor of the state between 1999 and 2003 as provided for by the law, Kano’s former governor Malam Ibrahim Shekarau said in Kano yesterday. Kwankwaso is the current governor of the state, having won last April’s election.

The law in question provides that any civilian governor in the state since 1999 is entitled to a house of his choice, a salary for life, domestic servants and annual vacation at any country of his choice. The law did not however peg a particular amount for the house to be built. The generous provision also applies to deputy governors of the state.

Shekarau was making a clarification over an allegation by some Kwankwaso administration officials that he approved N300 million for the supply of furniture alone to his controversial Mundubawa Avenue residence, which was built for him by the state government.

Shekarau, who spoke through his media aide Sule Ya’u Sule, said when his administration approached Kwankwaso and asked for the type of house he wanted it to build for him as provided for by the law, he submitted to the then government a demand that a house to his taste would cost N1.3 billion. Kwankwaso also demanded that the money be monetized and paid to him, Sule said.

According to Shekarau’s aide, the money demanded by Kwankwaso was reduced by the then administration to N900 million, “since the money budgeted for the house built for Shekarau was not up to N700 million.” He said a voucher for payment of the money was already raised and the amount was about to be paid when Shekarau’s tenure ended and the voucher was left for Kwankwaso to pay himself.

Sule also said N250 million had since been paid to Kwankwaso by the Shekarau administration as monetized funds for the construction of an office as provided for by the law. He described as untrue the allegation by Kwankwaso’s aides that Shekarau’s residence was built by the state government at N3 billion.

He said building of the house in question was done at N420 million (less 10 percent tax) while furniture and other fittings gulped N269 million, also less 10 percent tax.

Sule said contract for the house was handled by a Kano-based indigenous construction firm while the supply of the furniture and other fittings was handled by one of the big shopping malls in Kano.

He also said the whole project was done under the supervision of the state Ministry of Works and Transport. It is not true that Malam Shekarau has many houses in Kano and other places, Sule said, adding that the former governor has no house except the one built for him by the government.

However, Governor Kwankwaso’s media assistant Jaafar Jaafar insisted yesterday that Shekarau’s house was built at N3 billion and not N689 million as claimed by his aides. He alleged that furniture for the house alone gulped N350 million.

Jaafar said the law provides that a former civilian governor is entitled to a six-bed room house, but that Shekarau had a 20-bed room house built for him by the state government.

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PDP - SHARE THE MONEY!!!

Something similarly terrible in Kwara State

How can it be stated in law that a house need be constructed for a former governor or official be it civil or political. They deserve at most an adequate pension.

peter_tosh:

The law in question provides that any civilian governor in the state since 1999 is entitled to a house of his choice, a salary for life, domestic servants and annual vacation at any country of his choice. The law did not however peg a particular amount for the house to be built. The generous provision also applies to deputy governors of the state.

Stupid laws like this make governance very lucrative. This is why we see aspirants being very willing to sacrifice a whole nation in order to win elections.

so implementing minimum wage should not be a problem

Some of us are struggling to pay house rent while some building house for N3bn and N1.3bn. God help us.

Where is ndu_chucks, alj_harem, abu-maryam and the rest of the northern crew to condemn this?

Kano, a city that is dying or has died economically. Should anyone be surprised, if this is the type of management it gets?

Laaawd have mercy. They can as well loot the whole treasury since no amount is provided for. Some blank cheque it is

ushafe:

so implementing minimum wage should not be a problem

infact that minimum wage should be doubled. And we wonder how boko haram and other related groups find it easy recruiting young people

im just shocked & speechless

All those GEJ critics una no go talk abt the incessant spending from these guys

And this is the Nigeria some tools will tell you will get better one day? A country where something obviously illegal is enshrined into law and made legal. This was obviously passed into law by state house of assembly members who claim they are serving the interests of the people. Like someone posted earlier, the most an ex governor should get should be a good pension which at most is equal to what he earned while in office.

Nigeria is going to fail! Maybe not now but eventually it will fail. There are two types of people that want Nigeria to remain one, the type that benefit from the largesse e.g ex-governors in Kano and Kwara states and the type that are complete tools who can not reason or their brains are completely dead.

THIS IS WORRISOME AND DEVASTATING.
HONESTLY NIGERIAN RULING ELITES HAVE NO CONSCIENCE.
WITH ALL THE MONEY THEY STOLE WHILE IN POWER, THEY STILL HAVE THE AUDACITY TO
CLAIM SUCH BOGUS LARGASSE.

TRULY, WE NEED REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA

I AM SURE NIGERIA HAS THE LARGEST RELIGIOUS GROUP (Christianity and Islam- alike) IN AFRICA.
WHERE IS THE PROOF OF OUR CLAIM OF KNOWING GOD.

WE HAVE TO TAKE OUR DESTINY TO INTO OUR HANDS AND GOD WILL COME AND HELP US.
THIS MUST STOP OR WE WILL BE DOOMED FOREVER


GOD HAVE MERCY

Just unbelievable!!

Nigerian youths, where are you, while other youths are busy Orchestrating revolutionary changes??

For how long should all these be allowed to continue??

What a joke

pls was the house built with gold some politicians ought to be hanged

With all these stories about money , money everywhere.
I WILL NEVER NEVER NEVER BE POOR.
I AM A MONEY MAGNET AND I ATTRACT MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY


O YE NIGERIANS HEAR ME.
I WE G SPEND THE MONEY LIKE WE DRAW BREATH EVERYDAY

I'm afraid we need a Rowland and a Ghana style cleansing to improve the faith of Nigeria. A serious revolution , much more powerful and vocal than that of Tunisia and Egypt is required. After 50 years we are still dwindling in poverty.
I don't think people understand the gravity of this news 1.3 BILLION to construct a house. Not a state house , personal property which would be inherited by his children. In a region where child mortality is high , unemployment high, education standards low, and boko haram exists . It is a shame.

Nigeria is a failled state man,worse than somalia.Criminals make laws in nigeria to suit their cynical needs,while d suffers

Criminals like david mark,bankole and co make laws for civil citizens to abide by.Where in d world does such things happen?

Ediots!!!

I wonder if this shekarau or kwakwaso generate up to these billions they r mentionn from the IGR of there state or r they as usual servicing this excesses from OIL MONEY frm NDlta?

Accusations and counter-accusations.

Tinubu actually started this madness

Simple reasons why there are many Almanjiris in the state.

Na small money 4 9ja,
Dey shoúld give him d money.

May God help us ooo

With this kind of money ,sharia can not work.

With this kind of money ,sharia can not work.

Sharia is for d manipulation and intimidation of d deluded,ignorant and poor bastards adherents by d one eyed moslem elites