Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly arrested Hafsat, wife of Abdullahi Ganduje, Kano governor, over allegations of bribery and fraud.
According to PremiumTimes, EFCC had acted based on a petition by her son, Abdulazeez Ganduje.
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Hafsat was arrested after failing to show up at the EFCC Abuja headquarters on September 13 upon invitation.
She was said to have travelled to the UK at the time to attend the graduation ceremony of her son.
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The Governor’s wife was arrested on Monday evening and was still at EFCC headquarters as at 6am on Tuesday.
Abdulazeez was said to have reported his mother to the commission for corruptly using family power and status for personal enrichment.
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According to the publication, Abdulazeez in his petition had stated that he was approached by a property developer to help facilitate the acquisition of some plots of land in Kano with some hundreds of thousands of US dollars and at least 35 million naira as “facilitation commission”. He was said to have paid the money to his mother.
A source was quoted to have said;
But three months later, the property developer discovered that the plots of land he wanted and had paid for had been allocated to other buyers. He then requested to be refunded.
Mr Ganduje, the governor, had previously been involved in a corruption-related scandal. He has struggled to untangle himself from the public perception that he is a corrupt public servant since 2018 when Daily Nigerian published a series of videos that showed the governor collecting money from a government contractor.
