The Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, yesterday disclosed he would be leaving N11 billion liability to the incoming government on May 29 and he regrets it.Lamido made this known while assenting to the state’s 2015 Appropriation Bill in Dutse.
He disclosed the liability was part of the N17 billion used to construct an airport in Dutse which was sourced from the budget of different sectors.
“We took the money from the state budgetary allocation from other sectors to build an airport within shortest period of time.
“We used the money where we think are useful and needed especially to get the airport started, with the intention of recovering it from the Federal Government but it was not forthcoming.
“This had affected our ongoing projects which we could not complete like in health sector and road projects,” he said.
He advised the Governor-elect, Badaru Abubakar, to however follow-up the money promised by the Federal Government.
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