The Executive Secretary of the Kano State Science and Technical Board, Associate Professor Dahiru Sale Muhammad, has recently come under heavy scrutiny for allegedly selling over 36 houses belonging to the board without government approval.
Muhammad was accused of disbursing over 36 government-owned properties situated in Tiga Town, Bebeji Local Government Area of the state.
However, in a quick reaction to the allegations against him, Muhammad told newsmen that all the insinuations levelled against him were baseless because there was no sale of any house by his office.
He said: “What exactly happened was that a former Commissioner of Education under the administration of Ganduje was the one who sold houses belonging to the Science and Technical Board, not this Abba Kabir Yusuf Government.
“As at the time I assumed office, there was nothing like selling any houses. All I know is that some staff of Technical College Tiga took the principal of the school to court for allegedly selling houses and the court found him guilty and he was adequately prosecuted.”
In the same vein, the Executive Secretary of the board was accused of unduly transferring and removing some level 15 principals and allegedly replacing them with friends and cronies who are below level 12.
Responding to the allegation, Muhammad noted that all those he removed from their positions were found to be unqualified as principals of technical colleges because they lacked basic qualifications in science and technical subjects.
“You can imagine somebody having Arabic or Hausas as the principal of a Science and Technical College. What do you think would happen? Indeed, that was why all the practical equipment of the science and technical schools has not been put to use over the years,” he explained.
He also added: “What we did was redeploy these sets of principals who don’t have the required qualifications and appointed qualified ones with science and technical knowledge, and even at that, we have given them targets upon which we want to see results.”
Professor Dahiru Sale Muhammad explained that most of the science and technical practical lessons tools were kept for over 10 years since the Kwankwaso government purchased them and they were not put to use.