Isiyaku Ali-Danja: EFCC arrests Kano ex-speaker for alleged N1.5b fraud
- The EFCC is not leaving any stone unturned in the fight against corruption
- The anti-graft agency has nabbed a former Kano state House of Assembly speaker, Isiyaku Ali-Danja
- Ali-Danja was said to have embezzled the sum of N1.5 billion meant for tax liabilities
A former speaker of the Kano state House of Assembly, Isiyaku Ali-Danja, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The arrest came following an allegation of public funds diversion to the tune of N1.5 billion, Premium Times reports.
According to the spokesman of the anti-graft agency, Tony Orilade, the funds were meant for payment of tax liabilities to Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) by the state government.
Orilade said that the former speaker diverted and misappropriated the money from the sub-treasury account of the state government.
The anti-graft agency's arrests in recent times have led to a lot of court convictions involving top public servants in the country.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that a serving commissioner in Kano under the ministry of special duties, Mukhtar Ishaq, had been arrested by the EFCC in the state. Ishaq's arrest came after the agency's reception of confirmed reports that he diverted the sum of N76 million while he was the chairman of Kano municipal local government area.
On its official Facebook page, the antigraft agency reported that the said sum was slated for projects, development and empowerment of residents and indigenes of the area.
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According to the petitioner, Ishaq ordered the deduction of N30,000 from the account of each council member without justification.
In other news, Hussaini Abubakar, a former staff of the EFCC, had been convicted of stealing. Legit.ng reports that the Justice S.C Amadi of the Rivers state high court, Port Harcourt, on Wednesday, February 19, convicted Abubakar and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment.
In a tweet on its official Twitter handle, @officialEFCC, Nigeria's leading anti-graft agency reports that Abubakar was also handed a N150,000 (One hundred and fifty thousand naira) option of fine, for stealing, contrary to section 383 (1) and punishable under section 390 of the criminal code CAP 37 vol. II Laws of Rivers state of Nigeria, 1999.
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