Rab’iu Kwankwaso, the former governor of Kano state on Saturday said he resigned from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in 2010 due to the rampant corrupt practices in the agency.
The former governor told BBC Hausa that the rampant corruption in the NDDC “was due to greed and desperate moves by government officials to accumulate wealth”.
Kwankwaso, a former presidential aspirant, who resigned from the board of the NDDC in 2010, blamed failure of the leadership for the high level of corruption in government agencies
According to former lawmaker, he resigned his appointment because of official corrupt practices in the commission “that he doesn’t want to take part in”.
‘I hate corruption’
On Saturday, Mr Kwankwaso said he hates corruption and would not be a part of it.
“Many times people who sabotage the economy through stealing, nothing is done to them and they end up being with (in) the government.
“All these happenings in the NDDC is because the leaders are not vigilant enough. If the leaders are responsible and vigilant over the huge amount of money being released, even through borrowing, and which is later embezzled, the government would have prevented this,” the former governor added.
However, when asked why he could not expose the corrupt activities while in the NDDC, he said the “corrupt practices there were unprecedented”
Kwankwaso himself is no stranger allagations of corruption in the past.
He has been accused of allegedly diverting the sum of of N3.8 billion local government funds in the 2015 general election.
According to a petition lodged with the EFCC, Kwankwaso allegedly compelled Kano’s 44 council chairmen to fund his presidential campaign with N70 million each.
In 2020, he and his estranged successor, Abdullahi Ganduje, were also accused of being complicit in a N35 billion defence contract fraud.
He has since denied all the allegation.
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