Senator Rufai Hanga, representing Kano Central senatorial district of Kano State within the Senate, has responded to criticisms over his current donation of two,000 clay pots and 10,500 yards of white material to Muslim graveyards throughout his constituency.
Talking at a press convention, Senator Hanga clarified that the contributions had been private gestures aimed toward honouring a household custom, and never his constituency tasks as being erroneously bandied round.
Senator Hanga, a member of the New Nigeria Peoples Get together (NNPP) and Deputy Minority Chief Whip of the tenth Senate, emphasised that his donations had been supposed to please God and search His everlasting reward.
“This has been a legacy that I grew up with and inherited. It’s a follow I hope to maintain for so long as I stay,” Hanga said.
The donations, which had been distributed final week throughout 15 native authorities areas within the Kano Central senatorial zone, had drawn important consideration and a few destructive suggestions from netizens, who claimed the gesture was a misuse of public funds.
Nonetheless, Hanga was fast to refute the claims, asserting, “These supplies weren’t a part of any constituency mission, however a private initiative I’ve been dedicated to, even earlier than my election.”
Senator Hanga additionally detailed the sensible wants the donations meet, explaining that the clay pots are essential for sustaining the graveyards, a necessity that had been recognized by the Kano State Committee for the Graveyards.
“We had came upon that clay pots had been missing in most of our graveyards and determined to donate,” he defined, noting that the committee is chaired by Dangoribar Kano and the District Head of Tarauni within the Kano Emirate.