The three tasks have been value N1.6 billion.

The state commissioner of data, Mohammed Garba, introduced the cancellation at a extensively reported press briefing on Friday, on the resolutions of the State Government Council.

The state authorities gave “non-performance” as the rationale behind revocation, which affected Tiamin and one different firm, FNL Engineering Restricted. It’s unclear if the second firm can also be linked to Mr Mohammed.

Final yr, a web-based newspaper, Every day Nigerian, revealed a collection of movies displaying Mr Ganduje amassing wads of greenback payments at totally different occasions believed to be kick-backs from contracts awarded by the state authorities.

Findings by this newspaper point out that Tiamin’s managing director, Mr Mohammed, was the one who filmed the movies whereas delivering the money to the governor at totally different occasions.
Mr Mohammed nevertheless declined to reply PREMIUM TIMES inquiry on his position within the sting operation.

Nevertheless, a senior official within the firm, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES Friday night however declined to be named as he was not authorised to talk by his boss, confirmed that Mr Mohammed was certainly the unseen face within the notorious Ganduje movies.

He stated the cancellation shouldn’t be unconnected with the choice of Mr Mohammed to blow the whistle on Mr Ganduje’s alleged misconduct.

Mockingly, one of many tasks by Tiamin that was revoked by the federal government, dualisation of Kofar Dawanau-Dandinshe-Kwanar Madugu was talked about in one of many bribe-taking movies amongst these the contractors wanted the governor’s intervention for cost.

Mr Ganduje was heard promising to speak to the state’s Accountant Basic on the excellent funds.
The opposite two tasks by the identical contractor revoked by the federal government are roads linking totally different elements of Bichi and Fagge native authorities areas.

Mr Garba stated the street tasks in Bichi and Fagge have been awarded on August 2, 2017 and November 13, 2017 with completion interval of 4 months and 14 months respectively.

He stated the contracts have been revoked based mostly on the contractors’ incapability to finish the tasks regardless of accumulating respective advance funds of N204 million and N96 million.

Mr Ganduje is enmeshed within the bribe-taking scandal regardless of his denial and his go well with towards the information platform and its writer, Jaafar Jaafar.

A probe into the scandal by the Kano State Home of Meeting was additionally stalled in November by a excessive courtroom of Kano State on the occasion of Mr Ganduje.

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed resentment over the misconduct as captured within the movies.

He was reported to have made references to it at a gathering with Nigerian group in Paris final yr, and at a gathering of his get together’s marketing campaign council penultimate week.

On Thursday, Mr Buhari re-echoed the dilemma he expressed on the social gathering assembly on the irony of campaigning for Mr Ganduje with the allegation nonetheless across the governor’s head.

Mr Buhari mocked the governor for going to the extent of receiving the bribes personally and “smiling”. He stated he hoped the difficulty can be cleared earlier than his scheduled marketing campaign go to to Kano and recommended the movies might have been doctored.

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