The Zamfara State House of Assembly has set up an ad hock committee to probe the alleged contract scam of over two billion naira for the construction of a new Government House in Gusau, the state capital which was awarded by the immediate past administration of Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar.
Dosara drew the attention of his colleagues to available records before the House which indicated that sometime in the past, the Abdullaziz Yari led administration awarded contract for the construction of a new Government House and a whooping sum of over two billion naira was expended on the project without trace of the site of the proposed Government House in the state.
Ruling on the matter, the speaker, Nasiru Mu’azu Magarya ordered that an adhoc committee of seven members be constituted to investigate the matter and report back to the House in a month’s time.
Members of the committee according to speaker Magarya include Deputy speaker, Hon Musa Bawa Musa Yankuzo as chairman,while Faruk Musa Dosara, Zaharaddeen M.Sada as well as Ibrahim Muhammad Na’idda, Yusuf Alhassan Kanoma and Salisu Usman Zurmi remain members of the committee.
“We cannot as lawmakers in Zamfara state, keeping laws and order allow a whooping sum of N2 billon belonging to Zamfara state citizens to just go like that without any justification” the Speaker said.
The deputy chief whip of the House, Ibrahim Muhammed Tela also raised other matters of public importance calling on the House to intervene on the matters as indigenes of the state are being deprived of their rights and slots of admission in many tertiary institutions in the country.
Contributing, Muhammad Garba Ahmad Birnin Yaro ,Hon Musa Bawa and Yusuf Alhassan kanoma dully seconded the motion and called on the House to fully intervene on the matters by calling on relevant government authorities to curtail the ugly trend.
