The Kaduna State House of Assembly ad hoc committee probing former Governor Nasir El-Rufai over the debt burden on the state has requested the Ministry of Finance to tender documents on the state’s financial transactions between May 29, 2015 and 2023 for investigation.
An official memorandum endorsed by the Clerk of the Assembly, Mrs. Sakinatu Hassan Idris, and dated April 22, was addressed to the Commissioner of Finance for necessary action.
The letter said the Assembly, at its 150th sitting on Tuesday, resolved and constituted an ad hoc committee to investigate financial transactions, contractual liabilities and other related matters under El-Rufai’s administration.
It reads: “Accordingly, I am directed to request you to forward to the Ad-Hoc Committee Memorandum to be accompanied with the under listed documents and all other documents you consider vital to the assignment of the Committee.”
The Assembly’s request covers the total loans from May 29, 2015 to May 29, 2023, the approvals of the House of Assembly, the accounts into which the loans were lodged, and drawdowns, as recorded by Project Finance Management Unit (PFMU) and the Debt Management Office (DMO).
Also demanded are the relevant State Executive Council (Exco) minutes of meetings, the council’s extracts and resolutions with regards to the loans, payments and outstanding liabilities to contractors from May 2015 to May 2023.
The Assembly also requested for the reports of salaries paid to the state workers from 2016 to 2022, reports on KADIRS from 2015 to 2023, terms, purpose and conditions on those loans drawn by the El-Rufai administration.
Similarly, it requested for “appropriation items related to the loans, all records of payments made to all contractors engaged by the state government and relevant documents from May 2015 to May 2023, including bank statements, modalities for payments of contracts, documents of all payments made to the contractors, sales of government houses/properties and accounts the proceeds were lodged and how the money was expended”.
The Nation gathered that other Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) got similar requests from the House of Assembly.
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