The Kano State Government has filed a fresh fraud charge against the immediate past governor of the state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, his Commissioner for Local Government, Murtala Garo, and two others.
According to the charge sheet, Garo, Lamin Sani and Muhammad Takai were charged with criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, making false statements or return, and criminal misappropriation.
The Kano State Government accused the defendants of mismanaging 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 diverting N57.4billion through several personal accounts of Local Government’s Cashiers and other Personal and Cooperate Accounts.
The state government also accused the defendants of transferring the funds into dollars for their personal benefit.
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The state further alleged that Ganduje, who is now the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and others acquired a service apartment on the Murtala Muhammad Way, a commercial apartment at Akoya Oxygen –Dubai in Tigerwood and plot 2201 Floor 22 Damac Height, Marsa Dubai Marina, and a multibillion naira hotel in Jabi, Abuja.
Others are filling stations on Gwarzo Road in Kano and Eastern Bypass, Kano.
In the charge sheet, the state said it will call 143 witnesses.
No date has been fixed for the matter.
The Kano State Government had, on April 4, filed a suit against Ganduje, his wife, Hafsat Umar, and six others before the Kano State High Court.
The six others include Ganduje’s son, Umar Abdullahi Umar, Abubakar Bawuro, Jibrilla Muhammad, Lamash Properties Limited, Safari Textiles Limited, and Lesage General Enterprises.
On July 16, in the charge sheet with case No. K/143c/24, the state government accused Ganduje and former Commissioner for Justice, Musa Lawan, were charged with criminal conspiracy and misappropriation.
The Kano State Government accused Ganduje and Lawan of abuse of office.
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