{"id":8835,"date":"2013-08-22T23:39:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/kano-sacks-directors-surveyors-over-alleged-land-fraud-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-22T23:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:39:57","slug":"kano-sacks-directors-surveyors-over-alleged-land-fraud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/kano-sacks-directors-surveyors-over-alleged-land-fraud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kano sacks directors, surveyors over alleged land fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IN an effort to cleanse its civil service from corrupt practices, Kano State government has sacked three directors in its Urban Renewal Agency and three other senior officials in the Ministry of Land and Physical Planning over alleged fraud.<\/p>\n

  Essentially, the officials were fired over money meant to compensate farmers and other people of the local communities whose plots of land were taken by the state government for public projects.<\/p>\n

  The directors were found wanting for alleged criminal activities. They were also alleged to have been involved in construction of several illegal structures in the state capital.<\/p>\n

  The Commissioner for Lands and Physical Planning, Muhammad Nadu Yahaya, confirmed the sacking order while briefing members of the press. He declined to give the names of those affected by the state order.<\/p>\n

  He said the three surveyors were involved in verification exercise when they misused the opportunity and inflated the actual money that was meant for payment to the affected farmers and other land owners.<\/p>\n

  \u201cFor example, where it is stated N5 million, they turned it to N50 million, and where it is N6 million, they turned it into N60 million. We have been on ground for many years. As a former national surveyor general, I have to see everything for myself before effecting payment, and that was how we exposed them,\u201d the commissioner said.<\/p>\n

  \u201cTheir case was taken to the Civil Service Commission for scrutiny. After careful investigations that gave thorough findings, they were found guilty. Before we took action, some people were saying we should have been lenient with them by asking them to resign. But we decided that they had to be dismissed to serve as deterrent to others\u201d, he revealed.<\/p>\n

  He vowed that the current government would not have any tolerance for corruption.<\/p>\n

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