Admin I Friday, July 07, 2023
KANO, Nigeria – The Kano State Government has cleared the way for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to commence prosecution of the former governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje for accepting US Dollars bribe from contractors hired by the state government to halt probe into execution of the contracts.
The Kano State Government gave the clearance via letter by Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to Sanusi Musa SAN, tendered at the Federal High Court in Kano State.
The letter signed by the Commissioner, Haruna Musa Dederi urged the SAN to refrain from taking further action on the matter between the Kano State government and the EFCC.
This letter was necessary since the former governor, Ganduje had used executive fiat to stop EFCC from pocknosing into the matter.
Daily Nigeria has in 2021 published a viral video where in then governor Abdullahi Ganduje was was seen physically amasing US dollars from contractors hired for public works in Kano State.
Replying to the video which led to the name Gandollar for then governor, Ganduje described the video as fake, adding that his face was cloned in the video forcing the publisher to relocate to save his life, following threats from then governor and associates to deal with those behind the video.
