By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The All Progressive Congress, APC, Kano State Chapter, appears not to be persuaded by Governor Abba Yusuf’s denial of any knowledge of the alleged award of the controversial multi- million drugs supply contract in the State.
The Source reports that a curious controversy had been sparked a few days ago concerning an alleged award of a drug supply contract to a relation of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
The Multi-million contract is alleged to be for the supply of drugs and other medical equipment to all the 44 Local Councils of the State.
A Kano-based renowned skit maker had blown the lid off the alleged contract in a video clip that has since gone viral.
A statement jointly issued on Sunday August 18, by the Kano State Commissioner for Information, Baba Dantiye and Governor Yusuf’s Media Aide, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, disassociated the State Government from the said contract award.
It also announced that the State’s Anti-Corruption and Public Complaints Agency has been directed by Governor Yusuf to launch a full scale investigation to unravel the real status of the drug supply contract.
” Governor Abba K.Yusuf of Kano State has denied any knowledge of the contract said to have been recently awarded for the supply of drugs to the 44 Local Government Councils of the State.
The Governor has directed the Executive Chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Agency PCACC to investigate the allegations immediately and report the outcome for further actions “the kano state Government state reads.
But the APC Kano is not convinced that all is well.
It has, therefore, beckoned on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, to rise to the occasion ,and carry out unfettered inquest into the controversial drugs supply deal.
In a statement issued on Monday August 19,2024, by its Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, the opposition party lamented that the drug supply scandal is yet another in the series of alleged reckless frittering of Kano’s common patrimony by the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, led administration in the State.
To avoid further fleecing of the state’s resources, under the guise of operating joint accounts ,the APC also called for the immediate freezing of the accounts of the 44 Local Government Areas of the State by the country’s anti-corruption Commission.
The APC noted that the admission of ignorance of the said drug contract, is an eloquent testimony that Governor Yusuf is truly not in charge of governance and or is not competent to lead the State .
The APC described as laughable the directive for the state anti-corruption commission to investigate the controversial drug supply contract.
The APC noted that given the partisan and compromised trajectories of the Head of the State’s anti-corruption agency, the commission lacks the political will to investigate a scandal allegedly involving the immediate family members of the Governor’s father-in-law, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
Furthermore, the APC statement noted that before now, the State Government had been involved in the controversial award of N27 billion contract for the construction of two interchange. bridges at Danagundi and Tal’udu junctions within the Kano metropolis.
The said payments for the construction work is to be jointly made by the State Government and the Local Councils on 30/ 70 % ratio .
Abbas regretted that the latest development is coming at a time other past allegations are yet to be satisfactorily probed.
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