Foreign loans: Kaduna ACN asks Yero to resign

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  Kaduna State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has called for the resignation of the state Governor, Alhaji Muktar Yero, if he cannot run the state without resorting to securing foreign loans for the execution of projects in the state.
  
  The party expressed concern over the government’s penchant for foreign loans, which it claimed had continued to breed corruption among successive administrations in the state.
  
  The state Chairman of the ACN, Mohammed Soba, in statement made available to journalists in Kaduna on Monday, also called on the state’s House of Assembly to probe all foreign loans obtained by Yero, with a view to ascertaining the economic viability of such loans.
  
  According to him, the craving for foreign loans by the governor within the short period of his ascension to power clearly shows the policy direction of the present administration in the state.
  
  He also described the trend as “naked abuse of public trust and the enslavement of the present and future generation of the people of Kaduna state.”
  
  Soba noted that it was unimaginable that a government that had failed to upgrade facilities in the existing Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital and Barau Dikko Specialists Hospital, all in the state, could contemplate taking foreign loans to the tune of N7bn for an elitist hospital.
  
  However, the state government, through its Commissioner for Information and Home Affairs, Saidu Adamu, while describing the allegations as spurious, said the governor would not resign as he committed no crime against the state.
  
  According to the commissioner, hospital project is important to the people of the state in view of the fact that since the ABU Teaching Hospital was moved to its permanent site in Shika, Zaria, there has been a vacuum.
  
  He said the hospital, when completed, would also serve the students of the state university for their clinical practices.