Ganduje’s Dollar Bribery Video Is Genuine, Not Doctored – Forensic Analysis
By Leo Ezikiel
The Kano State Public Complaints and
Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) has confirmed that the forensic analysis
that the dollar videos of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, immediate past Governor of
the state were not doctored.
Recall that in 2017 the social media
video allegedly showed Ganduje receiving bundles of dollar notes and stuffing
them inside his flowing dress known as “babanriga.”
While Ganduje debunked the content
of the videos, the Kano State House of Assembly subsequently set up a committee
to investigate the allegations but the committee is yet to submit its finding
report and a new assembly was reportedly inaugurated on Tuesday.
A One Day Public Dialogue on Anti-Corruption
Crusade in Kano”, on Wednesday, 5th July, 2023, Chairman of the
agency, Barrister Muhuyi Magaji
Rimingado, confirmed the authenticity of the videos.
He said since the release of the
footages, people have been challenging him to prove the innocence or otherwise
of the former governor in the matter.
He added that his commission
commenced investigation in 2018 but could not go far because Ganduje, who was
governor at the time, had immunity.
Online publications had on June 14
reported that Ganduje asked a Kano State High Court to perpetually restrain the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating him over the
video clips which showed him allegedly receiving bundles of dollars from a
contractor.
In a suit filed before the high
court, the former Attorney General of the State asked the court to restrain the
anti-graft commission from probing Ganduje until a suit between the former
governor and the publisher of the Daily Nigerian, Jafaar Jafaar, was
determined.
Ganduje, in the suit with the EFCC
as the only respondent, through the former Kano attorney general, asked the
court to declare that the invitation and interrogation of the state universal
basic education board (SUBEB) chairman and accountant general of the state in
connection to the video was illegal.
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