Kano Anti-Graft Agency Boss Speaks On EFCC Probe Amid Ganduje ‘Dollar Video’ Investigation

1. Kano anti-corruption agency chair, Muhuyi Rimingado, to cooperate with EFCC and CCB investigations, providing requested financial and contractual details
2. Simultaneous probes involve dollar videos, alleged N4.3 billion fraud; PCACC maintains transparency and prior collaboration with other agencies

Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado, Chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), says the anti-graft agency will work with the two federal agencies investigating him.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) are looking into his activities.

In a letter signed by its Deputy Director, Cybercrime and Other Related Offenses, Muhtar S. Bello, the EFCC requested that the PCACC’s director of finance and accounts appear at the EFCC’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday.

The EFCC requested that the PCACC Director of Finance and Accounts “come along with the following information; Details of total funds released to your office by the Office of the Accountant General of Kano state from 2019 to 2021 fiscal year,” according to a letter dated August 8 but seen by Daily Trust on Sunday. Total funds released to your office by Kano State Ministry of Local Government from 2019 to 2021, including contracts executed and beneficiary accounts.”

In its letter dated August 14, the CCB stated that it was investigating a case of alleged violation of the code of conduct for public officers against some PCACC staff and requested that the commission’s chairman provide it with “Certified True Copies (CTC) of detailed information on the following: All contractual undertakings by the Commission from 2016 to date” as well as “All records of recoveries, forfeiture, and management of the same from 2016-date; records of all

The two federal agencies’ investigations coincide with the reopening of the PCACC’s investigation into alleged dollar videos involving former governor of the state and current National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.

While Ganduje has obtained an interim court order barring the PCACC from investigating him, his family, and associates, the anti-graft agency recently arrested and charged a former Managing Director of Kano Agricultural Supply Company Limited (KASCO), Bala Inuwa Muhammad, in connection with an alleged N4.3 billion fraud committed in less than a year while Ganduje was governor.

In response to the invitation, the anti-corruption czar told the Daily Trust reporter, “We are cooperating with them.” They requested some documents from us, and we are providing them with everything. The commission is transparent and accountable, and this is not the first time we have collaborated with other anti-corruption agencies.”