Kwankwasiyya questions proposed N55bn loan for Kano LGAs

The Kwankwasiyya Movement has questioned a reported program by the Kano State Government to get a indebtedness of astir N55 cardinal done the state's 44 section authorities councils, demanding details of the projected projects and however the indebtedness would beryllium repaid.

The question expressed interest that each assembly could beryllium required to instrumentality connected a fiscal work of astir N1.3 cardinal to money the constitution of Computer-Based Testing (CBT) centres, an unspecified task and an empowerment programme.

In a connection connected Sunday and signed by its spokesperson, Dr Habibu Sale Mohammed, the question said the authorities authorities needed to explicate wherefore the section councils were expected to instrumentality connected important debts for projects reportedly to beryllium managed by the state.

It acknowledged the value of acquisition infrastructure and empowerment initiatives but insisted that specified projects indispensable beryllium carried retired transparently and successful enactment with the law.

“The authorities indispensable explicate wherefore it needs to instrumentality this indebtedness present and whether the projected projects tin beryllium funded done existing budgetary provisions and disposable nationalist revenue. It indispensable besides disclose its gross presumption and existing fiscal commitments, and explicate wherefore the section authorities councils should instrumentality connected further debts,” the connection said.

Although it raised concerns astir the timing of the connection up of the adjacent electoral cycle, the question said it was not alleging that the indebtedness ...