How Kwankwaso ‘abandoned’ over $1m Kano funds in Ukraine – Gov Ganduje

Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor of Kano State has accused ex-governor of
the state, Rabiu Kwankwaso of allegedly paying over $1 million to a
university in Ukraine.

Ganduje said Kwankwaso 'abandoned' the money in the University and
that no student from the state was sent to study there.

The Nation reports that Ganduje's Senior Special Assistant on Higher
Education, Dr. Hussaini Akilu Jarma, made the disclosure on Tuesday,
during the inauguration of the State Scholarship Disbursement
Committee.

A statement by Abba Anwar, Chief Press Secretary to Ganduje quoted
Jarma as saying the questionable payment was made by Kwankwaso as part
of his foreign scholarship programme.

Jarma said, "Investigation reveals that a sum of $1,304,618 was
abandoned in one University in Ukraine, when the sum was taken there
during the last administration in the state.

"No student was sent to the university at all. The money was sent
unattended and un-utilised. We said business should not be as usual
anymore."