A Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Kano State has issued an interim injunction restraining the Jigawa State Authorities from taking any additional steps within the investigation of alleged misappropriation of funds within the COVID-19 Financial Restoration and Stimulation Program (J-CARES) End result Space II underneath FADAMA funds.
The court docket granted the injunction in a go well with filed by the previous Coordinator of FADAMA III in Jigawa State, Aminu Isa Ringim, difficult the method adopted by the committee arrange by the federal government to evaluate the implementation of the J-CARES FADAMA intervention within the state.
Aminu Ringim prayed the court docket to restrain the state authorities from utilizing the experiences till he was given a good listening to.
In his ruling, the presiding decide, Justice Isa Liman, issued an interim injunction restraining the defendant/respondent within the case from publishing, gazetting, taking any motion, or extracting a “White Paper” from the committee report.
The decide said that the restrictions shall be complied with till the dedication of the court docket concerning the honest listening to and different issues expressed by the complainant.
It might be recalled that the state governor, Malam Umar Namadi, had suspended the state Fadama undertaking coordinator and ordered a full investigation into the implementation of the J-CARES FADAMA intervention concerning the alleged misappropriation of funds allotted to the sector.
The Jigawa state Legal professional Normal, Barrister Bello Abdulkadir Fanini, said that they haven’t but obtained the interim injunction, which has a one-week lifespan. As quickly as they obtain it, they are going to research it and reply accordingly.
