…demands EFCC probe of video showing Kano gov receiving bribe
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership has backed the calls on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe a viral video clip showing the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, allegedly receiving a $5million bribe.
In a release issued at the weekend by the anti-graft organisation’s Coordinator, Media and Publications, Adegboyega Otunuga, on behalf of its Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, CACOL said, “According to Daily Nigerian, a tabloid that first broke the scandal open to the public, Governor Ganduje personally was receiving from 15 to 25 percent kickbacks for every project executed in the
state.
“You could then imagine how much of diversions of public funds would have taken place under his watch and why a state as large and strategic to the northern bloc has not had any meaningful achievement to point at since he assumed office, unlike his predecessor, Alhaji Rabiu Kwakwanso. The impression this man was giving, ab initio, after starting his tenure, was that Kwakwanso was teleguiding his regime for selfish and covetous considerations. Now, we know better.
The CACOL boss added, “Many of the contractors have attested to this heist by a sitting governor, who was busy collecting as much as 25 percent of total costs of building stalls for the people, as his personal kickbacks. The report went further to state that all the investigations carried out on the authenticity of this video by the Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency, clearly confirmed they were never doctored. Since this administration is one that prides itself on total war against corruption, irrespective of whose ox is gored, we wholeheartedly call for EFCC’s intervention by setting up a comprehensive investigative panel over this matter while the Kano state House of Assembly should wade in by commencing an impeachment process against the governor to save the state any further embarrassment and prove its own innocence over this unholy
act.
“This scandal equally afford the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration a unique opportunity to prove to Nigerians the truism of his inaugural phrase of ‘having no friends or enemies whenever the issue concerns the national interest of the nation.”
