The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, PCCAC, says it has traced about N51.3 billion allegedly misappropriated by former governor Abdullahi Ganduje, current national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Chairman of the PCCAC, Muhuyi Magaji, disclosed this during an interview on Arise TV.
The Kano State government, led by Governor Abba Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has filed charges against Ganduje over alleged misappropriation, dollar bribery and other offenses.
Magaji said the N51.3 billion traced to Ganduje were channelled to different local government accounts.
“They then met with local government staff to create false expenditure with a payment voucher and then diverted the money through a third party.
“We traced a lot of the diverted funds to various individual accounts at the single market and subsequently took the money in cash to the state government house with someone stationed with a counting machine.
After that, they changed it to dollars and then took it to certain individuals. We have a bureau de change who will testify that money was sent to him and how it was changed to dollars.
“We have been able to trace over N51.3 billion based on confessional statements and how they were diverted. What we are tracking is well over N100 billion,” he said.
Continuing, Magaji disclosed that some government officials had confessed their role in the alleged diversion of funds.