The Kaduna House of Assembly has hired a human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) to prosecute the former governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai corruption.
According to Sahara Reprters, Falana will lead a battery of lawyers to begin unravelling the monumental corruption on Thursday in Kaduna.
Recall that the lawmakers accused the ex-governor of mismanaging about N423 billion from loans obtained for the state by his administration.
The report alleged that the loans were not used for their intended purposes, and in some cases, due process was not followed in securing the loans.
Nasir El-Rufai served as governor for two terms between 2015 and 2023.
However, the ex-Governor had severally denied the allegations of fraud levelled against him by the state house of assembly, saying they are “politically motivated”.
The lawmakers in reply, reaffirmed its position on the allegations of financial misconduct levelled against former Governor El-Rufai.
The Assembly also denounced the attempts made by some political appointees, who recently held a press conference in Abuja, to discredit the House and conceal the alleged fraud committed by the El-Rufai government.
A statement released by the Chairman Fact-Finding Committee and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Henry Magaji, said, “The attention of the Kaduna State House of Assembly has been drawn to a press conference addressed by some senior political appointees of the immediate past administration of Malam Nasir El-Rufai.
“In the press conference, the former political appointees made strenuous efforts to pick holes in the report of the Probe Committee. They resorted to name calling and wild allegations on the motivations for the House Probe. We wish to state as follows:
“The press conference was just a rehash of the vituperations and innuendoes heaped on us by the former political appointees in their first press briefing. There was nothing new that should warrant our response. They failed to address the main issue, which is the systematic and coordinated cornering of the resources of Kaduna State through phoney contracts and outright looting.”
“If they genuinely have the interest of Kaduna State and are truly men and women of integrity, they would have applied themselves to developing the state instead of participating in the alleged pilfering of its scarce resources,” he added.
