Commission investigates Tambuwal over N16.1bn unaccounted shares
By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto
SOKOTO: Sokoto State Judicial Commission of Inquiry has at its resumed sitting on Tuesday commenced an investigation into 16.1 billion naira worth of unaccounted Shares sold by the administration of former Governor of the state Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.
The council to the commission barrister Amanzi Amanzi while briefing Journalists shortly after adjournment said, a memo to that effect was signed and presented to the commission by the permanent secretary of political affairs Alhaji Abdullahi Yabo under the office of the secretary to the state government.
According to him, the state accountant general Umar B Ahmed Tambuwal transferred the said shares to Sokoto Investment Company Limited through a letter.
Barrister Amanzi further stated that the shares were however sold with no trace of proceeds accruing from the sales, part of which he said was distributed to private and corporate accounts.
One of the complainants at the commission on Tuesday Alhaji. Ibrahim Aliyu a proprietor of Evergreen Schools told the commission that, he received a notice asking him to halt the development of the plots he purchased from some individuals before the 2023 gubernatorial election in the state.
Ibrahim Aliyu’s complaint is one of the 7 received by the commission from individuals in respect of plot allocation at the new Sokoto city by the immediate past administration.
” I heard from lands speculators that, the plots will be revoked by the present administration, ” I also heard that the plots were into categories, there are those allocated before the 2023 election and those allocated at the tail end of the Tambuwal administration after the election,” Says Aliyu.
” The commission should look into my complaint with a view to doing justice, ” I have already purchased gravel, Sand, and other building materials, just to receive a stop notice from the state ministry of lands and housing,” says Aliyu.
It could be recalled that Governor Ahmed Aliyu shortly after assumption of office on May 2023 revoked all plots of lands allocated by the administration of former Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal after the 2023 gubernatorial election.
The Governor assured that a thorough scrutiny of the allottee would made soon with a view to ensure that politics and nepotism do not play a role in the allotments of the said plots.
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