No fewer than 47 female Sudanese trained medical doctors, from Kano state, have returned home after successfully completing their training.
They were sponsored by the state government.
The new medical doctors left for Sudan since 2014, but encountered challenges in fees payment before Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s goverment cleared all the hurdles paving way for the completion of their MBBS programme in Al-Ahfad, Al-Razi and Undurman Universities.
The chief press secretary to the governor, Abba Anwar, disclosed this in a signed statement.
The fresh medical doctors, who touched down at the Malam Aminu Kano International (MAKIA) late Friday night, were accompanied by Muhuyi Rimingado, Executive Chairman of Kano State Public Complaints and Corruption Commission amongst other delegates.
They were conveyed from the airport to the State Anti-Graft’s Anti-Corruption Institute, Gorondutse in Kano metropolis, where they were officially handed over to their parents by the state government.
Speaking at the event, Rimingado said the state government is determined and ready to unearth any alleged sharp practices associated with foreign scholarship programmes emanated from the past administration.
“His Excellency, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje vows to purify the process of paying any outstanding fees left behind by the past administration, so that tax payers money will not be leaking again in the name of foreign Scholarship. That is why the governor directed our office to come into the exercise.
“Parents should know that, out of the total sum of over $2 million meant for this particular exercise, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s administration paid over half of the money. That is over $1 million was paid,” he revealed
According to him, his agency would continue to investigate what transpired in the whole process, adding that anyone found culpable “…will face the music. No stone will be left unturned.”