This time, it is the sale of 22 hectares of land at Gandun Sarki, Dorayi Karama, in Gwale Local Government Area of the state and alleged diversion of the money into private royal pockets that have landed the Kano royals in hot waters.
But the Kano Emirate Council had in its reply to enquiries from PCACC said it never approved the sale of the land and so, the purported sale was null and void.
Court papers in a suit filed by the alleged buyer, Alhaji Yusuf Shuaibu Aliyu, to restrain the anti-corruption boss from stopping construction works, had indicated that the Emirate Council sold 14 of the 22 hectares to him at N200m while the heirs of the late Emir Ado Bayero sold the remaining eight hectares to him at N575m.
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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the level of security continues to dip, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje says corruption has become a pandemic in Nigeria.
“Believe me,” said Ganduje, “we don’t need to say that corruption in this country is killing all of us.”
Ganduje was a subject of bribery and corruption in a viral video but has repeatedly denied the allegation, which he described as blackmail.
The governor stated this on Thursday as he inaugurated an eight-man Anti-Corruption Strategy Steering Committee to ensure a corruption-free Kano.
“The truth of the matter is that we will never develop or progress with this level of corruption in this country,” he added.
If corruption persists in Nigeria, the country will never move forward
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has said Nigeria cannot progress with the level of corruption in the country.
Speaking on Thursday at the inauguration of an eight-man Anti-Corruption Strategy Steering Committee, Ganduje stressed that all stakeholders must do all that is necessary to ensure a corruption-free state with limitless opportunities.
Ganduje, who was represented at the occasion by Alhaji Usman Alhaji, the Secretary to the State Government, noted that there is no sacred lamb in the fight against corruption in the state.
“Believe me, we don’t need to say that corruption in this country is killing all of us. The truth of the matter is that we will never develop or progress with this level of corruption in this country,” the governor cautioned.
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