Chuks Okocha in Abuja
Ripples of the debt crisis in Kaduna State continued yesterday, as Senator Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central lawmaker has asked the state government to go after former Governor Nasir El-Rufai over the state’s huge debt profile.
The governor, Senator Uba Sani, had last week cried out that the state cannot pay workers’ salaries and pensions because of huge debt burden that he inherited from the last administration led by El-Rufai
The former lawmaker called Governor Uba Sani to constitute an independent probe panel to investigate the immediate past administration over the huge debt it left behind.
Governor Sani had said he inherited a debt burden of $587 million, N85 billion and 115 contractual liabilities from the El-Rufai administration.
The Governor stated this while speaking at a Town Hall meeting over the weekend in Kaduna.
The governor had said the huge debt profile made it difficult for him to pay workers’ salaries.
However, Shehu Sani wrote further: “The looting of Kaduna State cannot be remedied by revelations alone but by courageously constituting a probe panel headed by an independent professional accountant or auditor who will invite and investigate ex-government officials and their proxy contractors to account for the millions in dollars and billions in Naira that were misused or outrightly stolen, including the $350 million loan.
“Kaduna State is at its hour of reckoning with the truth I foretold and the truth for which I was vilified.”
