The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti Corruption Commission
has withdrawn its earlier invitation to the wife of Muhaammadu
Sanusi, emir of Kano, and two widows of Ado Bayero, the former emir
of Kano.
This was conveyed in a letter dated June 20, 2019, and signed by
Salisu Tahir, director of public complaints and mediation of the
commission.
The agency had alleged that over 30 people benefitted from the
N3.4 billion said to have been misappropriated under the watch of
Sanusi.
The commission had asked those invited to report to its office
on June 24.
In an interview with NAN, Muhuyi Magaji, chairman of the
commission, said the commission found it necessary to withdraw the
invitation following the discovery of the name of the wife of the
emir on the list of those invited for investigation.
According to him, the commission will now request for the
documents on and limit itself to the expenditures that the agency
is probing.
“More than 30 people have been pencilled down for invitation
because we have information that whenever we requested for
information or document they used to deny us and they engage in
producing same apparently in anticipation of a court case,” he
said.
“Therefore, we decided to invite those necessary based on the
available facts at hand. The recent issue is for medical trip
overseas and we decided to invite the beneficiaries because even
the accountant was not allowed to come to us. So we don’t have
anybody to ask.
“The issue of the emir’s wife and any other person, apart from
the district heads, we don’t know them. It didn’t even come over
any one of us that the emir’s wife will be among those to benefit
from medical assistance.”
The agency revived its probe of Sanusi after the monarch fell
out with Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of the state.
The commission had earlier recommended the suspension of Sanusi,
prompting the state government to query the monarch.
However, there are efforts to reconcile Ganduje and Sanusi. The
governor spoke about this at Aso Rock on Tuesday.
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