Alleged Land Scam: Ganduje Not Involved In Kano Emirate’s Investigation- Garba

Kano state government says the ongoing investigation by the state Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission over the alleged sale of landed properties belonging to the Kano Emirate Council has nothing to do with Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.

Reacting to a front-page lead story of the Daily Trust newspaper of Friday, January 31, captioned: ‘’Ganduje renews feud with Sanusi’’, the state commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba says the commission is backed by the relevant laws to carry out such investigations.

He decried the caption of the story in a statement issued on Friday and forwarded to Solacebase.

Solacebase recalled that Kano State Public Complaints and Anti- Corruption Commission had launched an investigation into the alleged sale of ”Gandu Sarki” at Hotoro Arewa and Bubbugaje by some members of the Kano Emirate Council to the tune of N160m since December 2019.

It said Muhammad Garba pointed out that as it did occur in the past, where it even involved senior civil servants and political office holders, Governor Ganduje does not interfere with the activities of the commission and only learnt about the probe when it got to the press.

According to the statement, the Commissioner expressed dismay over the story in which the paper attempted to depict a renewed feud between Governor Ganduje and the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II and maintains that the caption of the story is disproportionately at disparity with the body of the news item.

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It noted that Governor Ganduje holds no grudge against the monarch, and even the issue of the creation of new Emirates in the state, which appears to be at the epic centre of the stuff, followed due process.

The statement, therefore, urges the media to guard against wiping up sentiments through publishing or airing of dramatic stories for the sake of wooing readers or listeners.