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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.
Garo, Lamin Sani, and Muhammad Takai according to the charge sheets were charged with criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, making false statements on returns, and criminal misappropriation.
The state indicted them of mismanagment of the 44 Local Governments' statutory allocations remitted to the State Joint Local Governments account from the Federation Account.
They were also accused of criminally diverting N57.4 billion through several personal accounts of LGs' cashiers and other personal and corporate accounts, the charge sheet said.
The state government also accused them of transferring the funds into dollars for their personal benefits.
The state further alleged that they acquired a service apartment on Murtala Muhammad Way, a commercial apartment at Akoya Oxygen (x20868 Dubai) in Tigerwood, and plot 2201 Floor 22 Damac Height, Marsa Dubai Marina, a multibillion-dollar hotel in Jabi, Abuja.
Others are filling stations on Gwarzo Road, Kano, and the Eastern Bypass, Kano.
In the charge sheet, the state said it would call 143 witnesses.
No date has been fixed for the matter.
NAN reports that on April 4, the Kano government filed a suit against Ganduje, his wife, Hafsat Umar, and six others before the Kano High Court.
The six others include Ganduje’s son, Umar Abdullahi Umar, Abubakar Bawuro, Jibrilla Muhammad, Lamash Properties Ltd., Safari Textiles Ltd., and Lesage General Enterprises.
