The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Wednesday insisted that the administration of former Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has a case to answer on the misappropriation of N432bn belonging to the state government.

El-Rufai is accused of diverting public funds to the tune of N423 billion, and money laundering but the former governor has since denied the allegation.

According to a statement, the Kaduna Assembly through its Adhoc Committee Chairman, Henry Magaji, insisted that the committee did a thorough work which unearthed a monumental heist allegedly perpetrated by the former administration in the state.

He said the former political appointees did was merely did was to embark on name-calling and wild allegations without addressing the issues raised in the probe report.

Magaji stated that the Kaduna State House of Assembly in line with its constitutional mandate and in response to public demand, carried out a thorough probe into the humongous debts incurred by the immediate past administration without commensurate projects.

“The attention of the Kaduna State House of Assembly has been drawn to a press conference addressed by some senior political appointees of the immediate past administration of Malam Nasir El-Rufai. In the press conference, the former political appointees made strenuous efforts to pick holes in the report of the Probe Committee.

“They resorted to name calling and wild allegations on the motivations for the House Probe. We wish to state as follows: The press conference was just a rehash of the vituperations and innuendoes heaped on us by the former political appointees in their first press briefing.

“There was nothing new that should warrant our response. They failed to address the main issue, which is the systematic and coordinated cornering of the resources of Kaduna State through phoney contracts and outright looting,” the statement read.