Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has dismissed as “false and ridiculous” the declare by ex-Governor Nasir El-Rufai that the Kaduna State Authorities below Governor Uba Sani paid N1 billion to bandits.
In a strongly-worded assertion issued and made obtainable to Journalists, Sunday, Senator Sani stated the allegation attributed to the previous governor lacked credibility and amounted to “politically motivated falsehood.”
Within the assertion he personally signed, Senator Shehu Sani accused the previous governor of building what he described as a “tradition of appeasement to terrorists” throughout his administration. In accordance to him, El-Rufai had beforehand admitted to partaking in “conditional money transfers” to bandits, a declare which, he famous, led to the arrest of journalist Luka Biniyat on the time.
The previous lawmaker argued that Kaduna State witnessed a few of its worst safety incidents below El-Rufai’s management, citing a number of excessive-profile assaults together with the Kaduna–Abuja practice assault, the Greenfield College abductions, and the kidnapping and killing of scholars from the Federal School of Forestry Mechanisation, Bethel Baptist Excessive College, and different establishments.
“Below his watch, bandits and terrorists operated freely like lords and kings,” Sani stated, including that enormous parts of Southern and Central Kaduna grew to become “slaughter homes the place criminals operated unchallenged.”
He famous that even the Kaduna airport was shut down sooner or later due to escalating insecurity.
Sani additionally referenced El-Rufai’s withdrawal of his son from a public faculty over security issues, arguing that such actions contradict the previous governor’s current claims on safety.
Difficult El-Rufai to current proof of any alleged fee by the present administration, Sani stated: “If he has photos or movies displaying money being handed to bandits, he ought to make them public.”
The previous senator additional alleged that El-Rufai is driven by “envy” over what he described as Governor Uba Sani’s success in fostering unity between the predominantly Christian Southern Kaduna and the Muslim-majority Northern Kaduna.
He accused the previous governor of presiding over an period marked by “non secular and ethnic discrimination, division, persecution, torment and terror.”
Whereas acknowledging that Kaduna, like different northern states, continues to grapple with safety challenges, Senator Sani argued that Governor Uba Sani has made notable progress in “constructing bridges throughout non secular divides and dismantling the buildings of banditry allegedly inherited from his predecessor.”
“No wise or accountable particular person acutely aware of historical past will give credence to the stream of lies which have grow to be routine within the lifetime of a person in his mid-60s,” he added.
