By Seyi Babalola
Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf claims the state has experienced the highest level of corruption when compared to other states in the area.
Yusuf said this on Saturday at a capacity-building training on anti-corruption concepts for the state’s public officers at the director level.
According to him, Kano saw one of the most severe grand corruptions of any state under Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s eight-year tenure from 2015 to 2023.
Represented at the occasion held at Dawakin Kudu Local Government by his deputy, Aminu Gwarzo, the governor said corruption has undermined the progress and development of the nation and no one was in doubt.
“Kano State in particular has suffered and experienced one of the major grand corruptions perhaps above any other state in this region over the past eight years.
“Our investment and state assets as the region’s center of commerce were hopelessly and fraudulently sold and those who acquired them are initiators and executors of the whole process.
“Most of those investments managed by Kano State Investment and Properties have both proceeds and the property gone back to the same people.
“Our infrastructure suffered years of neglect occasioned by multifaceted problems we are battling with after assuming office,” he lamented.
