Senator Shehu Sani has accused the past administration in Kaduna State of looting the state’s treasury, leaving behind a huge debt burden for the children and grandchildren of the state.
In a scathing attack, Sani alleged that the former officials embezzled billions of naira meant for projects, including a light rail scheme that never existed. He also said that they tied the state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to fraudulent bank loans, suffocating the state’s economy.
The senator likened the situation to a woman being raped, with the rapist seeking honour.
He vowed that the state would recover every penny looted by the former officials, whom he described as “rodents” and their leader as “larcenous”.
Sani’s comments are the latest in Elrufa’s struggle to extricate himself from a damning indictment of a allegedly embezzled N432billion under his watch as governor between 2015 and 2003. It would also be recalled that some of his former Commissioners had addressed press conferences two times, within three weeks in a bid to defend him.
