Zamfara State former governor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle has been exposed by his successor, Dauda Lawal.
Lawal has cried out to everyone that cares to listen that the immediate past Governor, Matawalle left only N4 million in the state account. He lamented that he has been running Zamfara on debt.
Lawal made the revelation in an interview recently.
He said; “I have been running the affairs of the state on debt since I assumed office as governor of Zamfara State. I met the treasury account of the state with no money. I only saw a single account with about N3 to N4 million in it.”
“It is about three months now and we are yet to pay the salary of the workers. If you look at all the government agencies, the power supply to the buildings has been disconnected due to the hundreds of millions of debts incurred.”
“The security agencies, for three months now, the allowance given to them for their daily operations has not been paid. Currently, students of senior secondary schools have not written their WAEC and NECO exams because the government is owing over one billion naira.”
“On the N20 billion he claimed of leaving in the state’s treasury, when I heard that, I asked that they should come and show me the account, and make it public with evidence of the account where such an amount of money was kept.”
“If I have that amount of money the previous administration is claiming they left for the state, I will pay all workers their salaries, and provide adequate funds to the security agencies for the protection of the state.”
“The issue of water, there has been no water in Gusau for about four months now. I had to borrow to purchase the chemicals for the water. And pleaded with some Indians who gave the state some machines for water supply. If the state is to purchase those machines, it will cost over N200 million.”
