{"id":52387,"date":"2018-10-15T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52387"},"modified":"2018-10-15T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:20:54","slug":"travel-ban-bafarawa-reveals-why-he-cannot-be-on-buharis-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52387","title":{"rendered":"Travel ban: Bafarawa reveals why he cannot be on Buhari’s list"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, on Sunday said he cannot be on the travel ban list because he has been discharged and acquitted by a Sokoto State High Court on the case in which he was involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn respect of the case listed against me in the Executive Order 6, I have been discharged and acquitted since July 31st 2018 by a court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stood trial for almost 10 years. I was not found wanting by the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also need to put on record that my accounts have not been frozen by any of the anti-graft agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of my properties has been confiscated till date. I have tried to live above board in public service and in my private life,\u201d he told The Nation.<\/p>\n

Thirteen former governors and seven ex-ministers have been barred from travelling out of the country, under Executive Order 6 (EO6) issued by President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n

The restriction followed the judicial affirmation of the constitutionality and legality of the Executive Order 6 (EO6).<\/p>\n

The watchlist and restriction were put in place pending the conclusion of corruption cases against those affected.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, on Sunday said he cannot be on the travel ban list because he has been discharged and acquitted by a Sokoto State High Court on the case in which he was involved. \u201cIn respect of the case listed against me in the Executive Order 6, I have been discharged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9069,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3741,6310],"class_list":["post-52387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-attahiru-bafarawa","tag-executive-order-6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52387","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=52387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}