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THE GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA) IN ZAMFARA STATE, SANI SHINKAFI, HAS URGED THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION(EFCC) TO LAUNCH AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TENURE OF THE IMMEDIATE PAST GOVERNOR OF ZAMFARA STATE, ABDULAZIZ YARI, OVER ALLEGATIONS OF MISAPPROPRIATION OF THE SUM OF N251 BILLION BELONGING TO THE STATE.
IN A PETITION DATED JULY 1,2019, SHINKAFI ACCUSED THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF LEAVING THE STATE IN HUGE DEBTS DUE TO WHAT THEY CLAIM TO BE MASSIVE LOOTING AND MISAPPROPRIATION OF THE STATES RESOURCES.
GIVING A BREAKDOWN OF HOW THE ALLEGED FRAUD WAS PERPETRATED, SHINKAFI SAID THE ABDULAZI YARI-LED ADMINISTRATION LEFT LIABILITIES FROM ON GOING PROJECTS TO THE TUNE ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO NAIRA TWO KOBO.
THE PETITIONER ALSO APPEALED TO THE ANTI-GRAFT AGENCY TO INVITE THE IMMEDIATE PAST SECRETARY TO THE STATE GOVERNMENT, PROF. ABDULAHI SHINKAFI, TO EXPLAIN HIS CLAIM THAT THE ZAMFARA STATE GOVERNMENT UNDER YARI SPENT THE SUM OF N35 BILLION ON THE PROCUREMENT OF VEHICLES FOR SECURITY AGENCIES AS WELL AS RELIEF MATERIALS FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACES PERSONS (IDPS) IN THE STATE.
YARI , THROUGH HIS MEDIA AIDE IBRAHIM DOSARA HOWEVER REFUTED THE CLAIMS STATING THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION LEFT NO DEBT ON THE STATE AND THAT HE LEFT N7BILLION AS TAKE OFF FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION
