A political group loyal to the former governor of Bauchi state, Mohammed Abubakar, has faulted the report of the assets recovery committee formed by the incumbent governor, Bala Mohammed, which alleged that former governors Abubakar and Isa Yuguda had looted the sum of N1 trillion belonging to the state during their tenures.
The group known as M.A Solidarity Forever, in a press release issued to journalists Sunday by its secretary general, Malam Nasiru Cigari, claimed that the allegation was baseless, adding that their principal received the sum of only N300 billion from both federal allocations and internal revenues during his tenure, which was expended in the execution of projects, payment of salaries, pensions and other recurrent expenditures.
“On the first purported allegation; the request of the committee to the former governors to refund N1 trillion, we declared it as senseless allegation for the fact that the total income that accrued to the state during M-A’s administration was slightly above N300 billion.
“The cartons of surgical hand gloves, sewing and pasta making machines found in the former governor’s house (Fadaman Mahda estate Bauchi) which was said by the committee to be government’s property, we say, is baseless and hilarious as those items belong to the wife of the former governor.
“It is a known fact that she manages a non-governmental organisation (BSWEEP). The said items are remnants of what she distributed to the women of Bauchi state.
“Moreover, the said items were donated to her organisation by various individuals and different organisations within and outside the country,” he said.
