The ongoing investigations into the financial dealings, loans and projects by former Governor Nasir el-Rufai has received the blessings of the state All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
The Kaduna State APC spokesperson, Salisu Wusono, told The PUNCH that the probe as a welcome development.
Wusono said “by this committee, we will realise the actual situation of things.
“Whatever we are doing is in the best interest of the good people of Kaduna State. What I believe and can tell Nigerians is that whatever the APC government is doing is in the best interest of the people.”
Similarly, the Kaduna State chapter of the NLC has declared its support to have el-Rufai probed.
The Kaduna NLC Chairman, Ayuba Suleiman, said the labour union would also want the Assembly to probe the unpaid severance packages of the over 32,000 workers sacked by the administration by El-Rufai.
Suleiman said, “We will prefer if the committee shall consider further the denial of payment of redundancy, severance and pensions allowances as provided by Section 20 of the Labour Act of 2004, for the over 32,000 workers sacked by the previous administration.”
The breakdown of the sacked workers, according to Suleiman, showed 21,711 primary schoolteachers, 7,000 state government staff, 6,000 local government staff, 3,000 primary health care staff, all the permanent secretaries he met in 2015, among others.
It would be recalled that on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, the Kaduna State House of Assembly set up a 13-man panel to investigate how the $350 million World Bank loan el-Rufai obtained was spent, as well as other financial spending and abandoned projects initiated by the immediate past government between 2015 to 2023.
