A former governorship aspirant in Zamfara State, Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has demanded that the Dauda Lawal administration publishes without delay former Governor Bello Matawalle’s handing over note and transition committee report referencing gold purchase from 2020 to 2023.
Shinkafi said that in the event of failure to publish the said documents in national newspapers within 14 days, he will be left with no option than to go to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, and the National Security Adviser, NSA.
According to him, citizens must hold elected public office holders at all levels accountable, insisting that sovereignty resides in the people.
In a statement on Thursday, Shinkafi said, “It is curious that three years after Bello Matawalle left office as governor of Zamfara State nothing has been heard of his administration’s well publicised Gold Reserve Initiative which he proudly presented to then President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa Abuja on 24th October 2020 with 31 kilograms of gold and precious stones he said Zamfara government procured to boost the financial base of the state.
“He told Buhari that the state had received offers from prospective buyers to supply them gold bars stating that the gold was mined and refined by local miners and concerned that few persons mined gold in Zamfara State and sell it abroad, that his government engaged the miners to block the chain of supply and avoid it entering
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