The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is investigating Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano state, over alleged N2.5 billion pension fraud.
A source in the EFCC disclosed that the sum was diverted
from the coffers of the Kano government when Kwankwaso was governor of the
state.
The source also alleged that houses that should have been
handed to pensioners at the time were “given to other persons”.
Kwankwaso was governor of Kano from 1999 to 2003 and from
2011 to 2015.
“There was a time when a group of pensioners in Kano paid to
have their own houses. The money was N2.5 billion, and they diverted the money
during the Kwankwaso administration and didn’t give them houses,” the source
said.
“The houses were given to other people. So we recovered the
houses and returned them to the pensioners.
“But we are currently investigating because it is still a
criminal offence. We invited him for questioning but he was not detained. It
wasn’t recent and it came before the election.”
News of the investigation comes months after Boniface Aniebonam,
founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), said Kwankwaso is destroying
the party and making attempts to hijack the party’s structure.
In 2023, NNPP’s board of trustees (BoT) suspended Kwankwaso
for alleged anti-party activities.
However, another faction of the party loyal to the former
governor reversed the suspension.
Kwankwaso was subsequently expelled from the party after he
failed to appear before a disciplinary committee.
Kwankwaso was presidential candidate of the NNPP in the 2023
election.
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