THE Governor of Kano State, Abudulahi Ganduje has finally opened up on his rift with his predecessor, Dr Musa Kwankwanso.
He disclosed in a chat with Daily Trust while speaking exclusively on the strained relations between him and the former Kano Governor.
He said although government is a continuum but there are so many areas or policies which the present administration faulted in the previous administration which it could not continue, the reason which they had to unavoidably part ways.
Gov Kanduje questioned the rationale amid others behind sponsoring over 100 pilots without a single aircraft on the ground.
His words: He sponsored 100 pilots but where are the aircraft? It is just like somebody reading Law without going to Law School. So they finished, but he couldn’t pay for their type-rating, instead he employed them as teachers. Before he left, they were arguing that I should pay for the type-rating. And even if we paid; where are the jobs? The industry is saturated. That is one.
Again, he accused his former boss of wasteful and extravagant spending by sponsoring students abroad which he said was okay then but which the state could no more cop with now.
According to him, ''he sponsored thousands of students abroad, which was quite okay, but what was the value of Naira at that time and what is it now? We now have to pay over $1million to one institution. The total cost is over $3billion. And you know that when we came in, money went down. What was coming from Abuja is down and many states cannot pay salaries. But still I said I would continue. Not only that, when you are sponsoring further studies you have to consider the manpower gap and needs of your state. You don’t just go and spend money on someone who will come and queue into the manpower needs of the state. What is the need of paying somebody to go and read International Relations, Geography, Computer Science, Chemistry or Biology, which are obtainable in Nigerian universities? In fact, some of the universities were not even running the courses until they collected our money. And they were instigating the students because we couldn’t pay immediately due to lack of money. Some states recalled the students because they could not pay, but even though we have the highest number of students abroad, up till now no student has come back because of the inability to pay. Of course we are paying, but we are spacing it. Is that not fine-tuning?
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