Former? Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau (Sardaunan Kano) has urged Governor? Rabi’u Kwankwaso to follow the path of honor and settle all his entitlements as provided by the state’s law on Pension Rights of Governor and Deputy Governor 2007 and stop playing politics with the issue.
The governor also urged the state government to live up to its responsibilities and resume payment of his monthly salaries in accordance with the provision of the law.
Sardaunan Kano’s spokesman, Malam Sule Ya’u Sule,? told LEADERSHIP? during an? interview that the state government was playing politics with the entitlements of his former boss by failing to settle it according to the provision of the law.
He added that when Shekarau was in government, he settled all entitlements of the former governor (Kwankwaso), his deputy, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje and his deputy, Engr. Magaji Abdullahi for meeting the criteria for the pension.
He also wondered why Kwankwaso? was playing politics with the issue as? Ganduje, his deputy and Shekarau’s deputy, Abdullahi Gwarzo as well as Kwankwaso were appropriately settled with all their entitlements according to the provision of the law.
Sule said, “Kwankwaso was trying to circumvent the law by playing politics with the issue just because it involved “the man he loved to hate.
“Malam is a man of honour, he sticks to the law which says entitlements of a governor is to be paid by the incoming administration”.
When contacted on the matter, Kano State Commissioner for Information, Dr. Umar Farouk Jibrin, said the issue of pension was not under the office of the state governor.
He further dismissed as flimsy,? the former governor’s claim that his entitlements were not paid.
Farouk said that it was not true that Kwankwaso had denied payment of his predecessor’s entitlements but that the former governor had failed to follow the guidelines for the payment.
He said, “The law has said that a former governor has to put a written request as a procedure before the pension board could initiate the payment”.