SON OF KANO STATE GOVERNOR, GANDUJE DRAGS MOTHER TO EFCC

Hafsat Ganduje, the wife of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, shunned an invitation extended to her by the antigraft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, to report for questioning, last week, over a bribery and land fraud case reported by her son, Abdualzeez.

Abdulazeez reported to the anti-graft agency 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 N35million as "facilitation commission."

It was further learnt that Abdulazeez said he paid the sum in dollars to his mother, Mrs Ganduje.

"But three months later, (the property developer) discovered that the plots of land he wanted and had paid the first family for had been allocated to other buyers and he then requested to be refunded," a source was quoted as saying.

Asked to comment on the matter, a spokesperson for Kano State Government, Mohammed Garba, said, "I am not aware and, so, he could not comment."

EFCC's spokesperson, Wilson (Uwujaren, did not comment on the matter when contacted on Monday.