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ALLEGED CORRUPTION: Court Orders Arrest Of Council Chairman In Kano

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5 years ago

May 13, 2020.

A Kano Magistrate Court has issued a court warrant for arrest of chairman of Kumbotso Local Government, Kabiru Ado Panshekara for failure to come up before it to answer a criminal complaint.

The Court 82 presided by Musa Ibrahim Fagge stated Panshekara received a criminal summon based on complaint by the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission on Criminal Breach of Trust and making a false statement but failed to appear.

The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission had charged Panshekara to Court for criminal Breach of Trust and making a false statement in the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives in the council area.

In a suit, the agency alleged the offence was contrary to section 315 of the penal code law and section 26 of Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Law 2008 (As amended).

The agency arrested Panshekara last Saturday over alleged abuse in the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives.

The commission alleged distributed palliative materials to security personnel comprising the Police, DSS, Immigration etc as well as Hisbah personnel; an act which contravenes the provision of Section 22, 23 and 26 of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law 2008 (as amended).

It said according to the list of beneficiaries of the palliatives those not included are: all political office holders, Civil Servants at Federal, State and Local Government, Political party Officials at ward level, traditional rulers Juma’at Mosques Imams and Pastors and Casual workers at Federal, State and Local Government.