Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf declared during a capacity-building workshop for civil servants that Kano has experienced the most severe form of corruption compared to other states in the region.
He stated that during Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s eight-year tenure as governor from 2015 to 2023, Kano was plagued by major corruption scandals.
Deputy Governor Aminu Gwarzo, representing Yusuf at the event, emphasized that corruption has hindered the nation’s progress and development.
“Kano State in particular has suffered and experienced one of the major grand corruptions perhaps above any other state in this region over the past eight years.
“Our investment and state assets as the region’s center of commerce were hopelessly and fraudulently sold and those who acquired them are initiators and executors of the whole process.
“Most of those investments managed by Kano State Investment and Properties have both proceeds and the property gone back to the same people.
“Our infrastructure suffered years of neglect occasioned by multifaceted problems we are battling with after assuming office,” he lamented.
The governor disclosed that even the revenue generation aspect was bedeviled by leakages for the benefit of a few to the detriment of the state’s collective interest.
According to him, heavy corruption during the Ganduje administration plunged the water resources sector into decay when he took over the reins of power, resulting in hardship even with the loan of six million Euros purportedly spent in that sector.
