Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Thursday dared a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i, to publish the debt profile of Kaduna State from 1966 to date.
Sambo, through his spokesman, Umar Sani, said this in his action to a statement in which the former minister alleged that he left a huge debt behind during his tenure as the governor of Kaduna State.
He said the publication of the state’s debt profile by El-Rufa’i would afford the public the opportunity to decipher and judge whether his administration bequeathed huge debt to the state or not.
He added that as a patriot and one, who is determined to expose corrupt practices, it would have served members of the public some good if such records, which were made available to the former minister, were published for all to see.
The statement read, “In his haste to drag the name of the Vice President to the mud and muster some continuous relevance in the media, he failed to conduct an elementary check on the status of the Zaria water project.
“The contract for the reactivation of the two treatment plants built separately by the defunct North Central State government and later the kaduna state government was awarded to Nalado Nig Ltd to return it to its original capacity of 60 million liters per day water treatment plant.
“At the time of the award of the contract it was operating at a minimal 10 million liters per day.
“The contract was executed successfully and handed over to the Federal Ministry of water resources.
“However after an audit of the water situation in Zaria was conducted it was discovered that Zaria requires about 150 million liters daily to stabilize in terms of water supply so under the Namadi Sambo Administration the current 150 million liter per day water supply contract was award to MotherCat Nig Ltd after a competitive bidding process and we have it on good authority that it is at 90% completion.
“This is in recognition of the efforts of the federal govt that is constructing the Galma Dam by Gilmor Nig Ltd that will supply the raw water for Zaria and its environs.
“By this recap which we have since explained and laid to rest we call on El-Rufai and his likes who are in pursuit of strategic political interest to do so using established legitimate means and not to attempt to cast aspersions on the integrity competence and respectability of well-intentioned persons.”
