Kano NNPP condemns N10bn loan approval for Ganduje, cautions banks

The Kano State chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has condemned the move by the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to secure a loan of N10 billion for CCTV installation in the state.

The NNPP in a statement by its chairman in Kano State, Hon. Umar Doguwa, described the loan as mortgaging the future of Kano children by the incumbent governor.

The statement read: “The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), condemned in totality, the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s fresh demand of N10 billion loan request from Acess Bank to install CCTV cameras in the state.

“Governor Ganduje seems to be using his seat of power to mortgage the future of the state and that of our children.”

Doguwa stated that despite acute shortage of water in Kano, the governor chose to fund insignificant project.

“Ignoring the fact that the state is experiencing widely increased water scarcity, the governor chooses to borrow to fund a project as insignificant as CCTV installation.

“The NNPP can’t sit down to watch this clueless administration stockpiling debts in the state without a commensurate achievement on ground,” he added.

He lamented that the administration refused to settle secondary schools students’ examination fees which led to dropping out of students despite taking loan in the name reforms in education.

Doguwa said: “Due to the failure of Ganduje’s government to pay their Senior Secondary School examination fees, countless students have been forced to drop out of school and others are on the verge of dropping out.

“Kano people can vividly recall that Ganduje had borrowed the sum of fifteen billion naira on education reform but the money was diverted to something else and today, a significant number of our students dropped out from schooling as the government cannot cater for their common interest examination and senior secondary school examination.”

While appealing to the Kano State House of Assembly to desist from granting such approval in the future by putting Kano interest ahead of governor’s desire, Doguwa said the NNPP will honour the agreement if the party won the 2023 gubernatorial election in the state.

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“We wish to categorically draw the attention of all commercial banks and other financial lending institutions within and outside the country to be cautious with the Ganduje’s demand for loans as the next administration will not in anyway honour such reckless borrowings.

“Our great party is urging the State House of Assembly to refrain from granting trivial demands from the governor like these.

“We implore honorable members to put the needs of Kano’s good people ahead of the governor’s insatiable desire to wreck the future of the state before we defeat them in the 2023 election.

“We also call on the Access Bank to resist any temptation to advance any loan to the borrowing Governor Ganduje who is hellbent on mortgaging the state to satisfy his self ends,” he stated.

Doguwa further chided Ganduje’s administration for its failure to maintain CCTV installation deployed by Kwankwaso administration, saying the incumbent governor only planned to borrow funds for the same purpose.

The NNPP chairman added: “With a sense of nostalgia, the general public remembered that in the past, our party’s presidential hopeful, Engr, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso deployed CCTV in strategic locations throughout the state.

“However, the current administration, that seeks N10 billion loan to install new ones, failed to handle them, and the good people of Kano can’t trust a governor with the installation of new ones at their detriment.”

The Star had reported that the Kano State House of Assembly approved loan request of N10 billion for Governor Ganduje-led administration to install CCTV in Kano to tackle security challenges bedevilling the state.

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