Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf, has alleged that the State suffered the worst form of corruption compared to others in the North West region.
He said Kano was hit by one of the major grand corruptions above any other for eight years when Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was Governor from 2015 to 2023.
Yusuf made the allegation during a capacity building workshop for civil servants in the rank of director on the principles of anti-corruption.
The governor, who was represented by his Deputy Aminu Gwarzo, said corruption has undermined the progress and development of the nation and no one was in doubt.
“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 are initiators and executors of the whole process.
“In fact, most of those investments managed by Kano State Investment and Properties have both proceed and the property gone back to the same people.
“Our infrastructure suffered years of neglect occasioned to multifaceted problems we are battling with after assuming office,” he lamented.
Speaking further during his keynote address, the governor disclosed that even the revenue generation aspect was bedeviled by leakages for the benefit of few to the detriment of the state’s collective interest.
According to him, heavy corruption during the Ganduje administration plunged the water resources sector in 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.
He explained that it was not out of place that his government prioritises anti-corruption as one of its core principles, adding that his resolve to fight corruption has been translated into so many cases currently before the courts.