PDP candidate vows to end security votes

Alhaji Abba Kabir-Yusuf, the PDP governorship candidate in Kano state, says if elected, the security votes will become a history in the state.

He made the claim on Sunday in Kano while addressing newsmen to mark his 56th Birthday, organised by his supporters.

The PDP governorship candidate alledged that the fund set aside for the security votes was an avenue for looting from public treasury.

“It is undeniably known that security votes are regarded as a looting-spree platform where the huge amounts of money provided and spent are unaccounted for.

“Consequently, ending up draining through the pockets of a selfish few, in their insatiable quest to self-enrichment out of public funds,” he alleged.

According to him, if he is elected as the Governor in 2019, the fund for the security votes will be used in a better way.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that security vote in Nigeria is a monthly allowance that is allocated by the 36 states for the sole purpose of funding security services.

Also, the fund runs into billions of naira and varies, based on the level of security required by the individual state.

The organiser of the event, Mallam Nura Ma’aji, President of Movement For Better Kano, said they organised the event to rejoice with Kabir-Yusuf for attaining 56 years of age and healthy.

Ma’aji added that the gathering was also to dispel rumours that the PDP cannot contest nor win the gubernatorial election in Kano.

Legit.ng previously reported that failure of public officers to give an account of security votes entrusted to them amounts to stealing or criminal misappropriation, the Court of Appeal in Abuja has said.

The court added that it is akin to genocide, The Punch reports. Legit.ng gathered that this formed part of the reasons the Court of Appeal on Friday, November 16, affirmed the conviction of former Governor of Taraba state, Jolly Nyame, whom the High Court of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory had earlier convicted and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment on June 30, 2018.

Similarly the appellate court, in a decision by a different panel, equally affirmed the conviction of former Plateau state governor, Joshua Dariye.

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