Greenback bribe video: You lack powers to analyze Ganduje, courtroom tells Kano anti-graft company
A Federal Excessive Courtroom has dominated that the Kano State Public and Anti-Corruption Fee lacks powers to analyze and prosecute a case of alleged assortment of Greenback bribe by former governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Justice AM Liman had whereas delivering judgement within the lengthy awaited controversial Greenback video clip case, held that the Kano Public and Anti-Corruption Fee lacks powers to analyze the case.
The decide held that the matter is a federal case which might solely be investigated and prosecuted by a reliable federal anti-graft company just like the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC.
He admitted that the scope of the judgment is proscribed to particular powers of the State Anti Corruption Fee, and whether or not it may possibly examine the matter, even if it has an parts of federal case in it.
He dominated that it’s only an workplace constituted by the Nationwide Meeting just like the EFCC can prosecute such case and as such Kano State Anti-Corruption Fee ought to arms off the case.
Reacting to the judgment, counsel to the Kano State Public and Anti-Corruption Fee, Usman Umar Fari, mentioned the company will interesting the decision.
