Bauchi state Governor-elect Bala Mohammed has raised an alarm that the outgoing Governor Mohammed Abubakar was allegedly planning to award spurious contracts worth N4 billion and recruit 8, 000 teachers before transition with a view to leaving financial burden to him when he takes over.
Speaking through his spokesperson Dr Ladan Salihu Thursday the governor-elect lamented that the actions were allegedly designed to sabotage and cripple the incoming administration at its inception.
“While we do not question the authority of the present administration to award contracts and make financial transactions for the day to day running of the government, it beats the imagination that instead of focusing on closing its books, the outgoing government has chosen the dishonourable option of emptying the treasury and over-burdening the people with enormous debts again”, he said.
Mohammed, who pointed out that Abubakar sacked 2, 000 traditional district heads when he took over in 2015 on the ground that the state had financial predicament, wondered why the governor would employ new staff at the expiration of his tenure.
Further, he alleged that state assets were currently being carted away by officials of the outgoing government warning that their administration would conduct thorough capital inventory and forensic audit of all financial transactions carried out by the outgoing government.
Efforts to get reactions from Abubakar’s spokespersons proved abortive as at the time of filing in this report.
