As the blame game continues in Bauchi State, Governor Bala Mohammed has alleged that his predecessor, Mohammed Abubakar spent a whopping sum of N2.3 billion to buy materials for burying dead bodies in the state. Ladan Salihu explained that over N900 million of the money was spent in buying white cloth materials used for wrapping dead bodies while over N1.4 billion was used to buy the wood for lacing the graves for the burial. According to him, the government discovered various issues of corruption, venality, daylight robbery of the commonwealth of Bauchi State where billions of Naira were syphoned illegally. “The immediate past government spent N2.3 billion, that government did not spend a quarter of that amount in our own hospitals and clinics. But we are saying that it is wrong completely, it is not the duty of government to buy burial materials for anybody.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 23, 2019 18:56 UTC