I Will Punish Any Person Involved In Misappropriation Of N2.74bn SURE-P Funds-El-Rufai

The Kaduna State Governor-elect, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has vowed to punish any person who is involved in the misappropriation of the N2.74billion SURE-P funds.

The governor-elect through his spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan in a press statement in stated thus;  “I have been made aware of desperate attempts to secure approval to spend N2.744 billion Sure-P Funds. Less than two weeks to its exit, the outgoing government of Kaduna State is seeking to pressure the outgoing House of Assembly to permit it to spend 50 per cent of the money on the Kawo road project, while the 23 local government councils will share the balance.

“As governor-elect, it is my duty to caution every official involved in these last-minute deals and that the incoming government will ensure that there are consequences for illegal conduct, breach of trust and stealing of public assets. Our government will certainly insist on accountability, and no one should be in any doubt about our resolve, be it the instigators of any impropriety or those who facilitated and executed it.

“Our transition committee is daily inundated with reports about the dire financial straits in which the outgoing government has placed the state. While I await the formal submission of the committee’s report, I am compelled to publicly affirm that we cannot and will not turn a blind eye to bad behavior,”, El-Rufai said.