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Noah Ebije, Kaduna
Few weeks after Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai was disinvited from participating in the just concluded annual general conference of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), the State has been selected to host the 2020 edition of the annual Conference of Auditors-General for Local Governments and Area Councils in Nigeria.
The Auditor-General for Local Governments in Kaduna State, Alhaji Atiku Musa, said this was because of Kaduna State’s successes in Key Performance Indicators in governance.
Alhaji Musa said when the last conference was held in Abuja and it was time to nominate where the next conference will hold, “almost every delegate said that they have been reading and hearing about the giant strides of the El Rufai administration, so it was decided that Kaduna should host this year’s conference.’
The Auditor-General who made this known to newsmen at the weekend, said that the event will hold by mid September in the State capital.
According to him, the theme of this year’s conference, entitled “Attaining Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability Through Better Audit Process”, could not have come at a better time.
‘’Governor Nasir El-Rufai is very passionate about transparency and accountability, that is why Kaduna State was rated the best state in Nigeria, by the World Bank States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SIFTAS).
‘’Apart from this, Kaduna state was rated by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) as the first sub-national to attract the highest Direct Foreign Investment in the last six months, last June, because of our Open Government Policy.
‘’Coupled with that, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ranked Kaduna state as the 6th in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the country and the first in the north, beside Abuja, in 2019,’ he said.
The Auditor-General of Local Governments in Kaduna State also said that Kaduna is ranked number one in the Ease of Doing Business by the World Bank last year.
According to him, Kaduna has always been at the top of almost all ratings by local and international organisations and all this ‘has been made possible by our able governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai.’
Alhaji Atiku said that all the Auditors-General for Local Governments in the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), will converged in Kaduna to ‘see things for themselves.’
He described the Governor as a very dynamic Chief Executive who is worth working with, adding that Kaduna has benefitted from his experiences in both private and public sectors.
