{"id":127873,"date":"2019-06-19T00:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T23:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127873"},"modified":"2019-06-19T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T23:36:14","slug":"ganduje-kano-corruption-agency-speaks-on-govs-probe-bribery-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127873","title":{"rendered":"Ganduje: Kano corruption agency speaks on gov&#8217;s probe, bribery videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ganduje-Kano-corruption-agency-speaks-on-govs-probe-bribery-videos.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head of the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, Magaji Ramindado, has explained why the agency has not opened probe on Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, three videos were published by Daily Nigerian showing Ganduje receiving wads of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday at the opening of a two-day meeting on anti-corruption, Ramindado said the commission failed to act because it did not know the motive of the video.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting on \u201cEnhancing Citizens\u2019 Effective Participation in the Fight Against Corruption,\u201d was organised by ActionAid Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the issue of dollar bribery scandal and the accusation that we have not probed the governor, people have forgotten that governors enjoy immunity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd apart from this, how could you undertake sting operation without involving us, yet you want us to be part of the probe? We can\u2019t, because we don\u2019t know your motive, we don\u2019t know whether it is true or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor you to have gone to the extent of releasing the video, you could have got anti-graft agencies involved. It doesn\u2019t mean it should necessarily be our own agency. But EFCC and ICPC are there and they could back the claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have investigated judiciary institutions, we have investigated the traditional institutions. I enter government house and I make arrest. We don\u2019t care whether people will say we are part of the government or not\u201d.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, Magaji Ramindado, has explained why the agency has not opened probe on Governor Abdullahi Ganduje. Last October, three videos were published by Daily Nigerian showing Ganduje receiving wads of dollars. Speaking on Tuesday at the opening of a two-day meeting on anti-corruption, Ramindado said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6446,49],"class_list":["post-127873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-abdullahi-umar-ganduje","tag-kano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}