Ganduje, Kano Govt have no stake in Dala Port – Management

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: The Dala Inland Dry Port DIDP has dismissed reports alleging that the household of erstwhile Governor of Kano State and contiguous past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, are shareholders successful the company.

In a connection connected Wednesday signed by the Company Secretary, Barr. Adamu Aliyu Sanda, DIDP described the reports arsenic “false, misleading, and politically motivated,” insisting that neither Ganduje’s household nor the Kano State Government has immoderate involvement successful the larboard project.

“The assertion that members of the Ganduje household are shareholders oregon directors successful Dala Inland Dry Port is wholly false. Verified records from the Corporate Affairs Commission CAC and authoritative committee resolutions intelligibly amusement that nary subordinate of the Ganduje household has ever been a shareholder, director, oregon signatory successful Dala Inland Dry Port”, said Sanda.

The institution explained that the task was initially owned by businessman Ahmad Rabi’u earlier City Green Enterprises CGE acquired 80 per cent of the company, leaving Rabi’u with 20 per cent equity. The transaction, it stressed, was decently filed with the CAC, and astatine nary signifier did it impact the Ganduje household oregon the Kano State Government.

On reports alleging that Ganduje’s children were allotted 5 cardinal shares each done an “ordinary resolution,” the connection said the purported papers was a forgery done without the cognition of different directors.

He said the forged papers is 1 of respective acts of mischief engineered by an aggrieved enactment successful a hopeless effort to politicize a backstage commercialized substance involving mediocre show and fiscal mismanagement.

Similarly, the DIDP dismissed claims that the Kano State Government owns a 20 per cent involvement successful the company, clarifying that the state’s lone engagement was done Corporate Social Responsibility CSR assistance astatine the petition of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council NSC.

“The proviso of infrastructure astatine the Zawaciki tract was purely developmental enactment to facilitate the revival of the larboard task and beforehand economical maturation successful Kano. CSR assistance does not represent shareholding oregon ownership,” the institution stressed.

The absorption besides refuted reports that a Kano State authorities official, identified arsenic Abdullahi Haruna, represented the state’s involvement connected the committee of the company. “Such idiosyncratic has ne'er existed oregon been known to the institution successful each its dealings,” it declared.

Rejecting different assertion that Ganduje’s household and the Kano authorities were aboriginal “removed” arsenic shareholders, DIDP said: “You cannot region an entity that ne'er existed arsenic a shareholder oregon manager successful the archetypal place. CAC filings from inception to day corroborate that neither the Ganduje household nor the Kano State Government has ever appeared successful the company’s ownership oregon directorship structure.”

The institution maintained that the circulation of the “falsehoods” was portion of a coordinated effort to tarnish Dr. Ganduje’s estimation and destabilize assurance successful the project.

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