Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) has begun investigations into allegations of bribery against the immediate past governor of the state, Umar Ganduje.
Gatekeepers News reports that the chairman of the commission, Muhuyi Rimingado disclosed this in a press conference on Tuesday.
Rimingado said the commission was looking into 2018 videos captured by Jafaar Jafaar, an investigative journalist, who filmed Ganduje collecting wads of dollars as a bribe.
According to him, the commission had received forensic reports on the videos and had extended an invitation to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to partner in the investigation.
He further told journalists that they had arrested a former commissioner of the state, Idris Wada Saleh, over alleged N1 billion fraud.
Rimingado said, “We have formally reopened the investigation and we have made several inroads… There is no extant court order barring us from the steps we are taking, which is investigation contrary to what some people want the public to believe.”
On Saleh, Rimingado said the former commissioner was suspected to have committed fraud in the guise of repairing metropolitan roads a few weeks to the end of the Ganduje administration.
He noted that the money was withdrawn in three tranches and paid into the accounts of three companies on April 25.
