Dollar bribe video: You lack powers to investigate Ganduje, court tells Kano anti-graft agency

 

A Federal High Court has ruled that the Kano State Public and Anti-Corruption Commission lacks powers to investigate and prosecute a case of alleged collection of Dollar bribe by former governor Abdullahi Ganduje.

Justice AM Liman had while delivering judgement in the long awaited controversial Dollar video clip case, held that the Kano Public and Anti-Corruption Commission lacks powers to investigate the case.

 

The judge held that the matter is a federal case which can only be investigated and prosecuted by a competent federal anti-graft agency like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

 

He admitted that the scope of the judgment is limited to specific powers of the State Anti Corruption Commission, and whether it can investigate the matter, despite the fact that it has an elements of federal case in it.

He ruled that it is only an office constituted by the National Assembly like the EFCC can prosecute such case and as such Kano State Anti-Corruption Commission should hands off the case.

 

Reacting to the judgment, counsel to the Kano State Public and Anti-Corruption Commission, Usman Umar Fari, said the agency will appealing the verdict.