Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i, has stopped government’s free distribution of food items during Ramadan usually done by his predecessor.
He said the culture, an initiative of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, was depleting the state’s resources.
Speaking when he received the executive members of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), El-Rufa’i explained that he took the decision because he does not want government to be involved in religious affairs, adding that “government is broke”.
“I have been made to understand that this Ramadan period, we are supposed to have started sharing rice, milk and sugar, but we will not do that,” El-Rufa’i said yesterday at the Government House.
“If his government continues in such direction, the administration will only exist to pay salaries and allowances.
“This beautiful office complex in which we are cost the government about N10 billion.
“The Deputy Governor and I would not have built this when there are many masses-oriented projects yet to be executed, but it has been built, we have to use.
“So, we solicit your prayers to be able to stabilise the situation and we hope that things will improve.”
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