₦airaland Forum

The Kaduna state All Progressives Congress Transition Committee ha​s​ dragged the state governor, Ramalan Yero, to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission for asking the state assembly to approve the withdrawal of N2.744 billion Sure-P money to be distributed among the 23 local government of the state and to finance an on-going road project in the state.
Although the proposal was rejected by many members of the state assembly, the APC, however,
​said the governor was putting pressure on some of the members to approve the disbursement of the money.
The proposal was sent to the state House of Assembly last week.
In a letter to the EFCC, the chairman of the APC transition committee, Balarabe Lawal, said the Mr. Yero has been putting the legislature under tremendous pressure to approve his utilisation of 50 per cent of the Sure-P funds for a road project, while the 23 local government councils would share the balance.
“Coming from a government whose tenure expires in less than two weeks, the intensity of the lobby for the money indicates a certain desperation that is clearly not in the public interest,” Mr. Lawal said.
He called on the EFCC to urgently investigate whether the Sure-P funds are still intact, or if they have been spent without appropriation thus necessitating a belated approval from the House of Assembly to provide a ‘legal’ means of retiring the funds.
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The full letter below:
APC Kaduna State Transition Committee
13 Isa Kaita Road, Kaduna
15 May 2015
The Chairman
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
Abuja
Dear Sir,
The attempt to misappropriate Sure-P Funds in Kaduna State
I write to bring to your attention the elaborate steps being taken by the outgoing Kaduna State Government to legitimise the misappropriation of N2.744 billion Local Government Sure-P funds, and to request that you exercise your responsibility of deterring crime by preventing this last-minute looting of public assets.
The Kaduna State House of Assembly declined to appropriate the Sure-P funds in the 2015 budget, and promptly removed them from the budgets submitted by the 23 local government councils. The state legislators further resolved that the fate of the funds be left to the incoming administration.
The outgoing governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, however has been putting the legislature under tremendous pressure to approve his utilisation of 50% of the Sure-P funds for a road project, while the 23 local government councils would share the balance. Coming from a government whose tenure expires in less than two weeks, the intensity of the lobby for the money indicates a certain desperation that is clearly not in the public interest.
I wish to therefore request that you urgently investigate whether the Sure-P funds are still intact, or if they have been spent without appropriation thus necessitating a belated approval from the House of Assembly to provide a ‘legal’ means of retiring the funds. If, as it is widely believed in the state, the monies have already been spent, it is crucial to determine the projects, the contractors and the procurement processes that facilitated such a deliberate haemorrhaging of public funds.

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