Ganduje Refutes Report Against his Administration

The immediate past Governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje has described reports that his administration obtained a N10 billion loan for the installation of Close Circuit Television CCTV cameras in the Kano metropolis, as misleading and untrue.

In a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja, the Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs in the Ganduje administration, Muhammad Garba, said the story credited to a non-existent civil society organization, the Coalition of Political Analysis Forum and Governance was designed to discredit the former governor by ignorantly calling for an investigation on why the money was not spent on the project.

Garba added that the said loan for the CCTV camera project, despite its importance in fighting crime and efforts to expand security infrastructure, the government decided to expand the project and unfortunately up to the end of its tenure, the facility has not been secured and therefore the project could not be executed.

He said the Ganduje administration intended to carry out the project in appreciation of its importance and considering that there is even a bill before the National Assembly, which at that time had passed through second reading, that sought to make compulsory, the installation of CCTV camera in private buildings and offices.