Aggrieved Kebbi contractors set to dump APC

Haruna Aliyu Usman, Birnin Kebbi

Contractors in Kebbi State have gathered at the eid praying ground in Birnin Kebbi to seek God’s intervention over the state government refusal to pay them three years feeding contract money for both category of schools. The contractors mostly aged women and children were led in protest by the state chairman, Alhaji Chindo Dan Madami, who told journalists at the praying ground that they wrote letters of complaint to the four first class Emirs of Gwandu, Argungu, Yauri and Zuru appealing to them to take their cries to the Governor, Senator Atiku Bagudu to settle the N1.2bn contract executed. He noted that the committee that was raised by the Governor confirmed that the said contract money was not paid. He added that even the Commissioner of Education, Alhaji Magawata Aliro confirmed through a memo that was written by the contractors that the state owes them the said amount.

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The chairman said that all of them are members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC), but if the government closes its eyes and ears to the plight of the contractors, they are ready to dump the party and call their members to throw their weight behind the other party. “We will work against the APC”, Dan Madami said. In her speech Hajiya Maryam Umar Badariya, the women leader told the gathering that the daughters and sons of both living and dead contractors will leave the party; she appealed to the state government to as a matter of urgency settle the contract debts. Attempts to get the state Commissioner of Information, Alhaji Gado Marafa to speak on behalf of Kebbi Government were unsuccessful.