Dollar Videos: Ganduje gets court order stopping Kano anti-corruption agency from arresting him

 

Former Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has secured a Federal High Court order restraining the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), police, State Security Service (SSS) and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) from arresting him.

The order also bars the PCACC and security agencies from arresting any member of his family.

The order was granted sequel to an invitation extended to Mr Ganduje by PCACC to answer questions on “dollar videos”, published by an online newspaper, Daily Nigerian, in October 2018.

The videos showed Ganduje stuffing bundles of dollars believed to be bribes into his pockets.

The chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhuyi Rimingado, on Wednesday said forensic analysis had confirmed the authenticity of videos.

But ruling on a fundamental enforcement of rights to fair hearing filed by Mr Ganduje on Friday, Justice A. Liman granted an ex-parte order restraining the anti-corruption agency and others from arresting him, pending the hearing of the motion.

 

The order reads: “THAT AN ORDER is granted restraining the respondents whether by themselves or acting through their officers, men, operatives, privies, or any person or group of persons whosoever described from harassing, intimidating, inviting, threatening to arrest, arresting, detaining the applicant, or his children or any member of his family or any appointee who served under the Administration of the Applicant or forcefully taking over of the applicant’s properties or his children or any member of his family, or his appointee who served under the Administration of the Applicant pending determination of the Applicant’s substantive Originating Motion in this matter.

“THAT the interim order shall operate pending the hearing of the motion for enforcement of Fundamental Right which is fixed for the 14 of July, 2023.

“THAT the Respondents shall be served with the Motion 36 hours from today.”