Ganduje, along with his former Commissioner for Local Government, Murtala Garo, and two other individuals - Lamin Sani and Muhammad Takai - are now facing fresh charges.
The trial of former Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has taken a new turn, as the Kano State Government has filed additional fraud charges against him.
Ganduje, along with his former Commissioner for Local Government, Murtala Garo, and two other individuals - Lamin Sani and Muhammad Takai - are now facing fresh charges.
According to the updated charge sheet, the four defendants are accused of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, making false statements, and criminal misappropriation, NAN reports.
The defendants, including former Governor Ganduje and his associates, are accused by the state of mismanaging funds meant for the 44 Local Governments in Kano. Specifically, they are alleged to have mismanaged statutory allocations from the Federation account, diverted N57.4 billion through personal accounts of Local Government cashiers and other individual and corporate accounts and transferred the funds into dollars for their personal gain.
The state stated they acquired a service apartment on the Murtala Muhammad Way, a commercial apartment at Akoya Oxygen – x20868 Dubai in Tigerwood and plot 2201 Floor 22 Damac Height, Marsa Dubai Marina, a multi-billion naira hotel in Jabi, Abuja.
In total the Kano state governor said it will call 143 witnesses.
No date has been fixed for the matter.
On April 4, the Kano government filed a suit against Ganduje, his wife, Hafsat Umar and six others before the Kano High Court.
The six others include Ganduje’s son, Umar Abdullahi Umar, Abubakar Bawuro, Jibrilla Muhammad, Lamash Properties Ltd., Safari Textiles Ltd., and Lesage General Enterprises.