Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has been criticized by his predecessor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, over his plan to construct a flyover with a loan at the Hotoro roundabout in Kano Metropolis.
Faulting the plans by Ganduje, Kwankwaso submitted that acquiring a loan of N20bn for the project ought to be the responsibility of the federal government and not the state government.
You may recall that Gov Ganduje had within this week visited President Muahammdu Buhari and presented the prototype of a three-level road interchange along the Kano-Maiduguri road which will be named after the president.
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Interview with BBC Hausa Service Friday, But Kwankwaso said, ‘Even though we need flyovers in Kano, but what people need the most in the state is education. They need to focus more on our children to be educated and get entrepreneurial skills to depend on themselves.
‘Instead of Ganduje to go and see the president and ask him to do the bridge, because it is the responsibility of the federal government to do the flyovers connecting Kano City to Wudil, the governor went ahead and presented a photo that was badly designed which even the president did not understand and has something better in his office.’
He went further to add that it was not a good idea to add to the debt of the state just because of a flyover, adding that the governor could not pay back, but rather would leave the coming governments with too many debts to settle.
He said his administration did not leave any debt to the state government, but that to his surprise, from that moment till now, Kano had N185bn debts to settle.
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