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Kaduna State Governor-elect, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday warned the outgoing administration in the state to forget its plan to disburse about N2.744 billion SURE-P funds.

El-Rufai, in a statement by his spokesman, Samuel Aruwan, alleged that the executive had put pressure on the Kaduna State House of Assembly for approval to spend the funds, days before leaving government.

Vowing to punish anyone discovered to have converted the SURE-P funds, El-Rufai said: “I have been made aware of desperate attempts to secure approval to spend N2.744 billion Sure-P funds.

“Less than two weeks to its exit, the outgoing government of Kaduna State is seeking to pressure the outgoing House of Assembly to permit it to spend 50 per cent of the money on the Kawo road project, while the 23 local government councils will share the balance.

“As governor-elect, it is my duty to caution every official involved in these last-minute deals that the incoming government will ensure that there are consequences for illegal conduct, breach of trust and stealing of public assets.

“Our government will certainly insist on accountability, and no one should be in any doubt about our resolve, be it the instigators of any impropriety or those who facilitated and executed it.

“Our transition committee is daily inundated with reports about the dire financial straits in which the outgoing government has placed the state. While I await the formal submission of the committee’s report; I am compelled to publicly affirm that we cannot and will not turn a blind eye to bad behavior”. .

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