The Kano State Public Complaints
and Anti Corruption Commission has withdrawn its earlier invitation to two
widows of Ado Bayero, the emir of Kano.
This was conveyed in a letter
dated June 20, 2019, and signed by Salisu Tahir, director of public complaints
and mediation of the commission.
The agency had alleged that over
30 people, including the widows of the late monarch, benefitted from the N3.4
billion said to have been misappropriated under the watch of Muhammadu Sanusi,
emir of Kano.
The commission had asked those
invited to report to its office on June 24.
“The Commission in the exercise
of its power conferred to it under Section 9 and 15 of the Kano Public
Complaints and Anti-Corruption Law 2008 (as amended) is further investigating
an alleged violation of Section 26 of the Commission’s enabling law in the
management of Kano state Emirate Council funds,” read the invitation letter.
“Consequent upon the above and
pursuant to the provision of Section 31 (1) (a) and (b) of the Kano state
Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Law 2008 (as amended) you are requested to
extend the commission’s invitation to some personalities that the expenditures were
incurred for them in respect of medical sponsorship to overseas to appear
before this Commission along with relevant documents to shed more light on
same.”
Muhuyi Rimingado, chairman of the
commission, had said the agency took the action based on “available facts at
hand”.
“The recent issue is for medical
trip overseas and we decided to invite the beneficiaries because even the
accountant was not allowed to come to us, so we don’t have any body to ask,” he
said.
“The issue of the emir’s wives
and any other person apart from the district heads we don’t know them. It
doesn’t even come over any one of us that the emir’s wives will be among those
to benefit from medical assistance.
“And it became necessary for us
to hear from them because there is no document suggesting that the money is
spent for that purpose. No referral letter from any hospital in Nigeria that
warrants the need to travel abroad, no any other documents to support the claim
some the visited country read only overseas.
“So the invitation of the emir’s
family is not intentional it is an innocent move as part of our fact finding
mission and if the emirate council will cooperate with us it will never lead to
this. A staff of the council like accountant can provide us the necessary
information.”
The agency revived its probe of
Sanusi after the monarch fell out with Abdullahi Ganduje, the governor of the
state.
The commission had earlier
recommended the suspension of Sanusi, prompting the state government to query
the monarch.
However, there are efforts to
reconcile Ganduje and Sanusi. The governor spoke about this at Aso Rock on
Tuesday.
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