Alleged N57.4 billion Fraud: Kano govt files fresh charge against Ganduje
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The Kano government has filed a fresh fraud charge against former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, his commissioner for local government, Murtala Garo and two others.
According to the charge sheet, Mr Garo, Lamin Sani and Muhammad Takai were charged with criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, making false statements or return and criminal misappropriation.
The state accused them of mismanaging of the 44 Local government’s statutory allocations remitted to the state joint local governments account from the Federation account.
They were also accused of criminally diverted N57.4 billion through several personal accounts of local government’s cashiers and other personal and corporate accounts, the charge sheet said.
The Kano government also accused them of transfering the funds into dollars fir their personal benefits. The state further alleged that they acquired a service apartment on the Murtala Muhammad Way, a commercial apartment at Akoya Oxygen – x20868 Dubai in Tigerwood and plot 2201 Floor 22 Damac Height, Marsa Dubai Marina, a multi billion Naira Hotel in Jabi, Abuja.
Others are filling stations, on Gwarzo Road Kano, Eastern Bypass Kano. In the charge sheet, the state said it will call 143 witnesses.
No date has been fixed for the matter.
On April 4, the Kano government filed a suit against Mr Ganduje, his wife, Hafsat Umar and six others before the Kano High Court.
The six others include Mr Ganduje’s son, Umar Abdullahi Umar, Abubakar Bawuro, Jibrilla Muhammad, Lamash Properties Ltd., Safari Textiles Ltd., and Lesage.
(NAN)
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