{"id":18548,"date":"2019-06-06T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18548"},"modified":"2019-06-06T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T21:04:24","slug":"kano-govt-queries-emir-sanusi-zamfara-suspends-emir-district-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18548","title":{"rendered":"Kano Govt queries Emir Sanusi; Zamfara suspends emir, district head"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been given 48 hours to respond to a query by the Kano State government over his role in the alleged misappropriation of N3.4 billion by the Emirate Council
\nThe State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission had recommended the suspension of the emir and others over the financial malfeasance.
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\nIn Zamfara, the government suspended the Emir of Maru, Alhaji Abubakar Cika Ibrahim and the District Head of Kanoma town, Alhaji Ahmed Lawal over their alleged involvement in armed banditry activities.
\nThe Director-General Media and Publicity to the State Governor, Alhaji Yusuf Idris, said the State Chief Executive, Alhaji Bello Mutawalle, has approved the suspension of the two men as a result of petitions against them by their subjects.
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\nThey were asked to hand over to others as investigations into their misdemeanours continue.
\nOn Sanusi, the alleged N3.4 billion was said to have been misappropriated between 2014 and 2017.
\nThis was contained in a preliminary report of investigation conducted by the commission and signed by its Chairman, Mr Muhuyi Magaji.
\nAccording to the report, the investigation was in respect of a petition of financial misappropriation levelled against Kano Emirate Council under the present Emir, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II.
\nThe interim report raised four cardinal issues bordering on indictments, amount involved, obstruction of investigation and recommendations.
\nThe report indicated that the Kano Emirate Council had spent over N1.4 billion in various expenditures believed to be fraudulent and unappropriated.
\nIn addition, the Emirate Council was alleged to have spent over N1.9 billion unappropriated on seemingly personal expenditures, making the total sum of the questionable expenditures.
\nAccording to the report, the expenditures contravened the provisions of Section 120 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and Section 8 of the Kano State Emirate Council Special Fund Law 2004.
\nSimilarly, the expenditures had also violated Section 314 of Penal Code as well as provisions of Section 26 of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law 2008 (as amended).
\n\u201cIt 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\u2019s invitation.
\n\u201cThe act is seriously affecting the process of our statutory responsibility and offends the provisions of Section 25 of the Commission\u2019s enabling Law 2008 (as amended),\u201d the report said.
\nThe report, therefore, recommended that the principal suspect in the person of Muhammadu Sanusi II and all other suspects connected with the case be suspended, pending the final outcome of the investigations.
\n\u201cThis is a necessary administrative disciplinary action aimed at preventing the suspects from further interfering with the commission\u2019s investigations.
\n\u201cThe commission further recommends that the contract awarded to Tri-C Nigeria Limited for renovation of Babban Daki, Kofar Kudu and Gidan Sarki Dorayi should be revoked as the company belongs to one of the suspects in person of Alhaji Mannir Sanusi, (The Chief of Staff in the Emirate),\u201d it said.
\nAccording to the report, the company failed to settle the sub-contractor, Cardinal Architecture Ltd, after being duly paid.
\nIt further recommended that appropriate authority should be put in place to oversee the affairs of the Emirate Council in line with established statutes and policies, pending the final outcome of the commission\u2019s investigations.
\nIt also recommended that further legal action should be taken against all the suspects as soon as the final outcome of the investigations were concluded and legal advice accordingly issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been given 48 hours to respond to a query by the Kano State government over his role in the alleged misappropriation of N3.4 billion by the Emirate Council The State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission had recommended the suspension of the emir and others over the financial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}