Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has alleged that his predecessor, Mohammed Abubakar, obtained N60bn bailout from the Federal Government during his four years in office, with nothing to show for it.
The governor was speaking while distributing cash and starter packs to 1,000 selected people in Ganjuwa and Darazo local government areas of the state on Tuesday.
He said that although the state has benefitted from many social investment programmes, it was not so lucky to get a bailout, budget support or any special financial intervention from the President.
Speaking further, he said they have a lot of challenges in terms of funding and that they came at a time when COVID-19 was just around and the economic situation was so poor.
More so, his government came at the time when Mr President has finished given his kindness to most of the state governments.
Referring to his predecessor, he said he knows what he did in terms of budget support to all the previous administrations where he gave them a lot of support but at the same time, the Paris Club that he made sure that he dolled out over N60bn to Bauchi State has nothing to show for it. He went on to say, they are not so lucky because he has already finished giving that programme.
“We are benefitting so much from the social intervention programme of the Federal Government and the economic sustainability programme, but we are not benefitting as much as the previous administration in terms of what comes into the coffers of the state,” he stated.
