Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of
Kano state, has issued a query to Muhammadu Sanusi, emir of Kano, over alleged
financial misappropriation.
The office of the secretary to
the state government (SSG) issued the letter on behalf of the governor.
The development comes less than
two days after Sanusi and Ganduje shook hands and prayed together during the
eid-el-fitr celebrations.
The Kano State Public Complaints
and Anti-corruption Commission had recommended the suspension of the emir,
saying during its investigation, it uncovered that N3.4 billion was misspent by
the emirate under Sanusi.
The amount was said to have been
misappropriated between 2014 and 2017.
A source revealed that the
letter of query was served on the emir on Wednesday but Munir Sanusi, chief of
staff to the emir, said it was received on Thursday.
Munir said the state government
asked the emir to respond within 24 hours.
In the report of its
investigation, the panel which probed the Kano emirate said over N1.4 billion
was spent on “fraudulent and unappropriated expenditure”.
According to the report, the
expenditure contravened the provisions of Section 120 of the 1999 constitution
(as amended) and section 8 of the Kano state emirate council special fund law,
2004.
“It is also the opinion of this
Commission, based on the available evidence, that Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II
continued to undermine the investigation through various means which include
giving instruction to all officers invited for clarification to shun the
commission’s invitation,” the report read.
“The act is seriously affecting
the process of our statutory responsibility and offends the provisions of
Section 25 of the Commission’s enabling Law 2008 (as amended).”
Another source said the emir
could be suspended after responding to the query.
In May, it was reported that Ganduje’s plot to remove Sanusi who is
believed to have opposed his re-election.
One week after the report, the
governor signed into a law splitting Kano emirate into five. The
anti-corruption agency also revived the probe of the emirate under Sanusi.
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