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The Governor of Bauchi State, Muhammad Abubakar on Thursday said the state government has constituted a committee under the leadership of Salihu Lukman to undertake a forensic audit of all contracts, expenditure and appointments by his predecessor, former Governor Isa Yuguda from May 2007 to May 2015.
Disclosing this at the opening of a two-day anti-corruption workshop for public officers, organized by the National Orientation Agency, NOA, in conjunction with the state government, Abubakar said his administration on assumption of office in May 2015, inherited 28 ministries and hundreds of departments and agencies with debt burden running into nearly 100 billion naira.
The Governor noted that the committee was setup so as to instill accountability and discipline as prerequisites for good governance.
Abubakar said his administration on assumption of duty, noticed that corruption had eaten deep into the state’s socio-economic and political life, hence his government’s resolve to sanitise and restore the system.
The governor said it was against this backdrop that on assumption of office in May 2015, one of the key areas he paid priority attention to was fighting corruption, by appointing a committee for the recovery of illegally taken government properties.
Abubakar while announcing that assets worth millions of naira had so far been recovered, said all the government’s actions were done “with a view to instilling accountability and discipline, which are the sine quo non for good governance”.
Commending President Muhammadu Buhari for his sheer determination in stamping out insurgency in the northeast, Abubakar also charged public officers to play the appropriate role in “highlighting the things that unite us as a nation, not those that have divided us”.
“Corrupt practices definitely are hindrances to the tranquillity of any nation,” Abubakar said.
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