The Chairman of Jigawa State Assets Recovery Committee, Air Commodore Abubakar Saddiq, yesterday said his committee was investigating the circumstances surrounding the 186 containers of tricycle imported by the state government in 2010.
He told Daily Trust in his office: “It would interest you to know that in 2010 or there about, the government imported 186 containers of tricycle. Each container had six tricycles inside. The containers were supposed to have been moved to the Maigatari Export Processing Zone to sell them to whoever they wanted to sell to. But our preliminary investigation showed that out of the 186 containers, only 112 were taken to Maigatari. I have called two former managers of the export processing zone and they claimed that the tricycles are there and that they sold 412 of them to the state government and gave some to members of the public. They said 74 containers are still at the port. I told them that if they are sold to the state government I would like to see the payment. I will investigate the 74 outstanding containers imported since 2010 to ascertain their whereabouts”. He said his committee had so far recovered 10 vehicles and was working with 13 ex-commissioners to return theirs. Saddiq said his committee is also working to recover landed properties in and outside Jigawa.
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