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Kwara: Panel recommends Saraki, Abdulfatah, others for prosecution over alleged criminal conspiracy

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The white paper panel on the unlawful sales of government’s properties from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2019, in Kwara State, has recommended diligent prosecution, possible jail terms and recovery of the alleged properties.

The Chairman of the panel, Barrister Hussein Buhari, said this was the only way to avenge the official connivances that led to the pilferage of the assets.

Speaking during the submission of the white paper report in Ilorin, Buhari said “findings in the report were mind-boggling and nothing short of diligent prosecution, possible jail terms and recovery of many of the properties can avenge the “official connivances” that led to the pilferage of the assets.”

According to him, ” The former governors and many of their aides have questions to answer on how public properties and shares were sold under questionable circumstances, including on the eve of their departures from public offices.”

Buhari revealed that non of the officials honoured the invitations for them to clear the air on the deals, adding that “The administration should prosecute them as a matter of justice, a request the governor said had been noted for action.”

The white paper panel chairman disclosed that ” There are so many rots perpetrated by the past governments especially in the last 16 years before 2019.”

He said, “For instance, the rots on Shonga Farms, Satellite Motel, and our properties in Kaduna, Abuja and Lagos, were simply inconceivable. They were all sold to themselves at giveaway prices.

“We saw criminal conspiracies in fact, Kwara State is now heavily indebted to some people because the past governments mismanaged our properties.

“I just wish Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq will have the courage and political will to implement the report so that everybody found wanting will be brought to book,” he added.

Buhari submitted that the Electoral Act was very clear that anybody found guilty of mismanagement of resources be banned for 10 years from holding political office.

He hoped that the government will accept the panel’s recommendations and set up an implementation committee.

In reference to the administration of Dr Bukola Saraki, Buhari said ” On Shonga Farms, you brought 13 farmers and you gave them land and huge money in foreign currency and yet nothing was remitted to the state government.

“They did not stop at that. They mortgaged the same land and collected money from different banks.

“We also found out that most of the government officials involved in all these are deliberately working against the government of the day for selfish reasons.

“It is impunity. They are working for their paymasters and not the citizens of Kwara State,” he declared.

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