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Politics of Monday, 24 February 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Kano minority leader allegedly under fire for diverting N1.5bn into personal use

Kano State House of Assembly Kano State House of Assembly

A Minority Leader and former speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Isiyaku Ali Danja has allegedly landed himself in the net of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for misappropriation of N1.5bn meant to be used for constituency projects.

Luck ran out on the speaker after the Commission received a petition that monies meant for payment of tax liabilities to Federal Inland Revenue Service by Kano State Government were allegedly diverted and misappropriated from the sub-treasury account of Kano State.

Over the course of the investigation, several suspicious payments were traced to multiple beneficiaries including some made to Allad Drilling Limited, a company belonging to the suspect and whose accounts he is the sole signatory.

More findings revealed that he not only withdrew cash from the account on several occasions- he was also the one who approved completion of the jobs before any payments were made.