1 Trillion: Gov Dauda must provide detail expenditure for Zamfara people.... APC
By Sanusi Muhammad, Gusau
The All Progressive Congress APC, Zamfara state chapter has challenged Zamfara state governor Dauda Lawal to come out publically and explain to people of the state on how he expended the sum of over one Trillion Naira he collected from the statutory allocation within two years of his administration.
The party made the call in a statement signed by the state publicity secretary Yusuf Idris and made available to Blueprint in Gusau Thursday.
It could be recall that the Minister of state defense Hon Bello Mohammed Matawalle during his visit to the state last week challenged Zamfara state governor Dauda Lawal for collecting N1 Trillion Naira from federal government.
The party challenged governor Dauda Lawal hiding what he generated either received from federal allocation or generated as internal revenue.
The party also described the issue as lack of transparency and accountability by governor Dauda Lawal's administration.
"We noticed that the governor is subverting state resources in a way no one can question, instead, uninformed officials especially information managers will be fighting tooth and nails, mostly invoking open insults in defence of what the government gets and how it utilised same transparently".
"Matawalle , a minister and full fledged cabinet member in the federal executive council is certainly knowledgeable of the money received by the Zamfara State government".
According to the statement, as a former governor of the same state Matawalle knows how it was, during his time and how more money is being pumped into the state system without commensurate progress achieved.
The party tasked the PDP government under governor Dauda Lawal to publish its statement of account from 29th May, 2023 with money received from federation account, separating state and local government.
"This one trillion naira does not include funds from donor agencies, Corona virus recovery funds, federal development levy support, N10 billion monthly security support fund and 20 billion subsidy removal relief funds which most citizens of the state are not aware of".
"These too form part of our challenge on the government to make public and how they were utilised by Governor Dauda Lawal".
The party lamented how governor Dauda Lawal sacked over 3000 civil servants when he was in office as governor.
It stressed that Matawalle regularised the employment of 1400 workers in addition to recruiting thousands others including political appointees in order to create job opportunities, empower youths and provide food on the table for families.
The party warned governor Dauda Lawal that if he fail to publish the Zamfara State government accounts as required by the law annually, the party will use freedom of information Bill to request the release of the bank data.
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