Chairman of the Senate Committee on local and foreign debt,
Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central) has said that Journalists in Kaduna
are under siege occasioned by the state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.
Reacting to a report on allegation of corruption and
nepotism in Kaduna under El-rufai by an online medium, he said journalists in
Kaduna cannot report, he said El-Rufai jails journalists like Pinochet or
Stalin.
" Journalists in Kaduna state are under siege;
blackmailed,arrested,pocketted or threatened with arrest and as such
could not have written such a story.
" El-Rufai jails journalists like Pinochet or Stalin.He
is a man with a mouth for criticism but without a stomach for criticism.In his
two years in office he has jailed not less than 7 Journalists in kaduna of
which many are in court.
" Kaduna state is run like a personal family and
friends estate without any meaningful physical achievement other than sponsored
media propaganda,"he said in a statement signed by his Adviser on Politics
and Ideology, Suleiman Ahmed.
He said El-Rufai has no money to pay traditional rulers he
recently sacked but has money to dispense as contracts to family,friends and
political cronies.
" El-Rufai has enough money to pay Herdsmen but no
money to pay district heads.Kaduna is today littered with abandoned drainages
to the point that the rainy season has turned kaduna into a 'coastal state with
creeks'.He is auctioning over two thousand Government houses he inherited but
he is yet to build a hut.
"The Kaduna state Governor who in his memo accused
President Muhammadu Buhari of running a failed Government,has failed also
woefully.He thinks PMB failed but he never invited PMB to even Commision a
completed Toilet in his state.Under Elrufai kaduna has become a hub of
Kidnappers and a sanctuary for Herdsmen.
" The very Governor who once condemned the National
Assembly for lack of transparency has proven to be worse.El-Rufai wants to be
seen as an apostle of Buhari's change but he is actually the Judas of
change,"he said.
By Ismail Mudashir
