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Bauchi State Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir has lamented that the state and local government joint account was a conduit pipe used by successive administrations to siphon public funds to the detriment of the taxpayers in the state.
The Governor was speaking on Thursday during a meeting with Local Government Councils Chairmen and heads of security in the state held at Banquet Hall of the Government House.
He said that, “we have discovered that all projects embarked upon by successive administration in the name of joint account we not done, the money was just diverted. This has left us in the present situation where we have to rely on monthly overdraft to pay salaries of local government workers “.