$350m, N85b loan: Sheu Sani demands immediate probe of El-Rufai, others

Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator, has called on the state government to prosecute ex-governor El-Rufai and those who had a hand in the state’s soaring debt profile.

He further urged Governor Uba Sani to constitute an independent probe panel to probe the immediate past administration over the heavy amount of debt left for the current leadership.

Governor Uba Sani had declared at a Town Hall meeting that he inherited a debt burden of $587 million, N85 billion and 115 contractual liabilities from the El-Rufai administration.

He explained that the huge debt profile has made it difficult for him to pay workers’ salaries as and when expected.

In his reaction to the governor’s allegation in a post on X, the former lawmaker stressed the need to set up an independent professional accountant or auditor who will invite and investigate ex-government to uncover how the money was spent.

Sani wrote: “The looting of Kaduna State cannot be remedied by revelations alone but by courageously constituting a probe panel headed by an independent professional accountant or auditor who will invite and investigate ex-government officials and their proxy contractors to account for the millions in dollars and billions in Naira that were misused or outrightly stolen, including the $350 million loan.

“Kaduna State is at its hour of reckoning with the truth I foretold and the truth for which I was vilified.”