- On April 18, Abdulazeez Ganduje, son of Abdullahi Ganduje, visited the anti-graft agency to show support for the commission’s case against his dad, mum and brother.
- In 2021, Abdulazeez dragged Hafsat Ganduje, his mother, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over a bribery and land fraud case.
Muhuyi Magaji, chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Graft Commission (PCCAC), has disclosed how the agency traced N51.3 billion diverted by Abdullah Ganduje, former governor of the state.
Magaji said this when he featured on Arise TV, he said that the funds traced by the anti-corruption commission were half of the over N100 billion meant for local government authorities in the state.
“The monies were channelled to different local government accounts. They then meet with local government staff to create false expenditure with a payment voucher and then divert the money through a third party,” he said.
“We traced a lot of the diverted funds to various individual accounts at the single market and subsequently took the money in cash to the state government house with someone stationed with a counting machine.
After that, they changed it to dollars and then took it to certain individuals. We have a bureau de change who will testify that money was sent to him and how it was changed to dollars.
“We have been able to trace over N51.3 billion based on confessional statements and how they were diverted. What we are tracking is well over N100 billion.”
The Kano anti-graft chair added that the commission has gathered about 200 people
who confessed how the Ganduje led administration directed them to pad up their spendings.
“About 200 people, confess to the commission that we took this money and this money that they asked us to write, we purchased a car for hospital, we purchased antigenic drugs, it’s all lies.
“We had it and we didn’t even see the money. We only produced the premium. But the cashier confessed to the commission that this money, we have taken it to so-and-so person and that person was invited by the commission. He equally confessed that, yes, this person take it to so-and-so. So this is one. We established 51.3 billion Naira.
“So as I’m talking to you now, we have a cogent and verifiable evidence that we are taking to court on this case.
Magaji also alleged that Ganduje sold a company belonging to the state government at a ridiculous price to the first family of the state.
“The spouse of the former governor, she used to be the secretary of all the accounts that were linked in such particular allegations and the allegations is not all about this 51 billion. Because this 51, as I’m telling you, is virtually, I think it’s 90% of it was taken in cash. It’s only been traced. But it was taken in cash.
“But this one, it is on a particular issue. Whereby, you know, a company belonging to Kano government was sold to a company that belonged to the first family and this first family, all these people you mentioned, they were directors and that, including the person that you just mentioned, visited me in the office and at the same time, the spouse, I mean the wife of the former governor, is the secretary of that account and that company is a cotton ginnery that deals with the ginnery of cotton.
“We have cotton ginnery, we have cotton ternary. All the two companies were sold. But this particular one was sold to his family and under his hand, at the stupid price of, ridiculous price, forgive me, of 320 million. Instead of the bono of the property, which was 2 billion naira.
“So you see, and even the said 320 million naira was not remitted. It was only, we were only able to trace. We traced 90 million naira and this 90 million naira, we traced it back to this local government money.
Magaji concluded that the ultimate goal of investigating Ganduje is to serve as a deterrent to others.
On April 18, Abdulazeez Ganduje, son of Abdullahi Ganduje, visited the anti-graft agency to show support for the commission’s case against his dad, mum and brother.
In 2021, Abdulazeez dragged Hafsat Ganduje, his mother, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over a bribery and land fraud case.