BREAKING: Nasarawa Gov Sacks SSG ‘For Misappropriating N1 Billion’

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has sacked the Secretary to State Government, Aliyu Tijani Ahmed, for alleged misappropriation of N1 billion education fund.

The move reportedly followed the call for Ahmed’s sacking by the state’s House of Assembly.

Ahmed-Tijjani was the Commissioner for Education in the administration of the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Umaru Al-Makura.

Ahmed’s sacking was announced in a statement issued by Hamza Gayam, the Permanent Secretary (PS), Government House Administration, on Monday in Lafia.

The statement said the governor had directed Ahmed to immediately handover all government property in his possession to Mr Muazu Adamu-Gosho, the Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Affairs in the  Office of the SSG.

It said that the governor thanked the former SSG for his services and support to the administration and wished him well in his future endeavour.

The state House of Assembly ad-hoc committee investigating the release of N1 billion for the renovation/fencing of public secondary schools in the state in 2018, had indicted the former SSG

Following the indictment, the state legislators asked Ahmed to refund over N248.5 million as unaccounted funds to the state government.

The house said the former commissioner displayed blatant inefficiency, incompetency and ineffectiveness in the performance of his official duties and urged the governor to relief him of his appointment