Treasury looters must, as a matter of necessity, be punished so as to serve as deterrent to all those wishing to do same, the Katsina state Governor, Aminu Bello Masari has said.
Speaking exclusively to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, Masari assured that all those who embezzled Katsina state monies would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
He said once the state executive council was constituted, “it will take decision on the issue of outright stealing of Katsina state money and those who took our money must bring them back”.
The former speaker of House of Representatives said “The issue is that there must be punishment. We are insisting that there must be punishment so as to serve as deterrent”.
He insisted that merely asking looters to return looted money was not enough to “because no matter what you do, not all of it will be returned” adding that there must be stiff penalty for those found wanting of embezzlement so as to deter those wishing to do same.
The Katsina state governor said in insisting that treasury looters be made to face full wrath of the law, “we are putting a break on ourselves” and regretted that despite receiving close to one trillion
naira from the federation account between 2007 and 2015, Katsina State had nothing to show.
Fielding questions on allegations that the Governor and opposition PDP had signed a pact in the state following which the PDP Guber candidate withdraw his petition from the election petition tribunal, Governor Masari said nothing could be further from the truth.
“Between God, you and me, nobody has ever spoken to me. PDP has not spoken to me; I have not spoken to PDP. In fact, in my entire life, I have never seen Nashuni as a person, in blood and flesh, I have never seen him”
Masari said the alleged pact existed only in the figment of the imagination of rumour peddlers and persons and “perhaps those engaged in speculative journalism who always speculate even on things that never happened”
Source:Leadership
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