Zamfara State government has again countered the immediate past administration in the State led by Bello Matawalle, now the Minister of State for Defence, concerning the Gusau International Cargo Airport project. DAILY POST reports that Matawalle, last Friday, denied the allegations of embezzling billions from the Zamfara cargo airport project.
But in a statement issued in Gusau, the spokesperson to Zamfara Governor, Sulaiman Bala Idris, said that the response by Matawalle exposed a blatant violation of trust.
90 without the approval of the designs and bills of quantities of the project by relevant government departments on the 19th of June, 2020, almost eleven months after the award; throughout the period, nothing was done to certify the drawings, bills and secure necessary approvals of relevant airport regulatory authorities.
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