Kwankwaso To Leave Kano With Over N200 Billion Debt –State Official

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News From The State Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

By Agabus Pwanagba – With barely over a week to the expiration of the administration of the Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, is reportedly leaving over N200 billion debt, an official of the state’s treasury department has said.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of victimization, said the state is virtually broke as it has over N200 billion vouchers to pay to individuals and companies.

“We have a dicey situation at hand more especially against the dwindling income, and we seem helpless because all these mess would be transferred to the incoming administration,” the official said.

He said the state has a bill of over N200 million as unpaid advert bill to media houses and added that there has been nothing done to suggest the money will be paid before the expiration of Kwankwaso’s tenure.

The treasury official said he’s inundated with daily approval of money to be disbursed, and most of the bills affect the governor directly.

The bulk of the debts are liabilities that are abandoned projects scattered across the state, including 92 abandoned road projects in the municipal area.

Top in the list of abandoned projects are the two kilometre Sabon Gari flyover, Wuju Wuju Jakara road projects, Gadon Kaya under – pass road projects and five kilometre road construction in each of the 44 local government areas.

Most of these projects that were awarded at several billions of naira by the Kwankwaso administration, and have only reached 10 percent completion.

Recall that recently the Kano State Indigenous contractors under the leadership of Auduwa Maitangaran, revealed that Mr. Kwankwaso’s administration owed them over N60 billion.

In a related development, the Chairperson, North West zone of the Independent Petroleum Marketer Association of Nigeria, Lawan Danzaki, lamented the numerous abandoned projects by the outgoing

administration of Kwankwaso.

Danzaki who addressed a press conference in Kano last week, said Mr. Kwankwaso has systematically left the state with bad debt that his successor will spend the next four years working to complete the abandoned projects he left behind.