The Kano state public complaints
and anti-corruption commission in the evening of Monday, June 3, said it has
uncovered over N3.4 billion allegedly misappropriated by the Emir of Kano,
Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II. According to a preliminary report of the
investigation conducted by the commission and signed by its Chairman, Mr.
Muhuyi Magaji, the alleged amount was said to have been misappropriated between
2014 and 2017. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the investigation
was in respect of a petition of financial misappropriation levelled against
Kano Emirate Council under the present Emir, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II. A letter
from our Editor-in-Chief Bayo Olupohunda It added that the interim report
raised four cardinal issues bordering on indictments, amount involved,
obstruction of investigation and recommendations. It also indicated that the
Kano emirate council had spent over N1.4 billion in various expenditures
believed to be fraudulent and unappropriated. It further accused the emirate
council of spending over N1.9 billion unappropriated on seemingly personal
expenditures, making the total sum of the questionable amount. The report said
the expenditures contravened the provisions of section 120 of the 1999
constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and section 8 of
the Kano state emirate council special fund law 2004. Also, the expenditures,
according to the report, had violated section 314 of penal code as well as
provisions of section 26 of the Kano state public complaints and
anti-corruption commission law 2008 (as amended). “It is also the opinion of
this commission, based on the available evidence, that Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II
continued to undermine the investigation through various means which include giving
instruction to all officers invited for clarification to shun the commission’s
invitation. “The act is seriously affecting the process of our statutory
responsibility and offends the provisions of section 25 of the commission’s
enabling law 2008 (as amended),” the report said. Thus, the report recommended
that the principal suspect, Muhammadu Sanusi II, and all others connected with
the case be suspended, pending the final outcome of the investigations. “This
is a necessary administrative disciplinary action aimed at preventing the
suspects from further interfering with the commission’s investigations. “The
commission further recommends that the contract awarded to Tri-C Nigeria
Limited for renovation of Babban Daki, Kofar Kudu and Gidan Sarki Dorayi should
be revoked as the company belongs to one of the suspects in person of Alhaji
Mannir Sanusi, (the chief of staff in the emirate),” it said. In the event of
the suspension, the report recommended that appropriate authority should be put
in place to oversee the affairs of the emirate council in line with established
statutes and policies, pending the final outcome of the commission’s
investigations. It also recommended that further legal actions should be taken
against all the suspects as soon as the final outcome of the investigations
were concluded and legal advice accordingly issued. At the time of this report,
the emirate council is yet to react to this fresh development. Legit.ng earlier
reported that activities in the palace of Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II had
reduced to its lowest state following the creation of four more emirates by
Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano state. The emir returned from lesser Hajj on
Sunday, May 12 and was received by thousands of supporters who followed his
convoy to his palace.
Read more:
https://www.legit.ng/1241652-anti-graft-agency-recommends-suspension-emir-sanusi-alleged-n34bn.html
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