Assembly Awaits Loan Documents To Probe El-Rufai’

Kaduna State Ministry of Finance is expected to forward to the state House of Assembly all documents pertaining to the loans taken during the eight-year administration of the immediate-past Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

The Assembly, in a letter directed the Commissioner for Finance to make the documents available to the Clerk, Sakinatu Idris, “on or before Thursday, 25th April 2024 , stating that, the Assembly wants all memoranda and documents relating to financial transactions between 2015 and May 2023 during El-Rufai’s administration.

It also said, 30 copies of each of the documents must be provided by the finance ministry, while, the Assembly had on April 16 set up a 13-man panel to probe all finances, loans and contract projects awarded under the El-Rufai administration.

The probe by the state Assembly comes weeks after the incumbent Governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, lamented that El-Rufai left him a huge debt profile, when he spoke during a town hall meeting in Kaduna, that, he inherited a lean treasury, and could not pay workers’ salaries.