{"id":26540,"date":"2024-04-09T17:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=26540"},"modified":"2024-04-09T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:51:27","slug":"kano-government-to-arraign-former-governor-ganduje-and-others-on-alleged-misappropriation-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/09\/kano-government-to-arraign-former-governor-ganduje-and-others-on-alleged-misappropriation-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Kano Government to Arraign Former Governor Ganduje and Others on Alleged Misappropriation Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State Government has announced plans to arraign former governor Abdullahi Ganduje and his wife, Hafsat, along with six others, over alleged misappropriation of state funds and diversion of landed properties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An arraignment summon indicates that Ganduje and the other respondents will face an eight-count charge, including allegations of dollar bribery, as well as diversion and misappropriation of funds amounting to $413,000 and N1.38 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The respondents in the suit also include Abubakar Bawuro, Umar Abdullahi Umar, Jibrilla Muhammad, Lamash Properties Ltd, Safari Textiles Ltd, and Lesage General Enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Kano State Government has disclosed that it has assembled 15 witnesses to testify in the case.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26565\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Notes_240409_165117_fbd-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Notes_240409_165117_fbd-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Notes_240409_165117_fbd-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Notes_240409_165117_fbd-768x1069.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Notes_240409_165117_fbd.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The arraignment is scheduled to take place on April 17th, 2024, before Justice Malam Na\u2019aba at the Kano State High Court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State Government has announced plans to arraign former governor Abdullahi Ganduje and his wife, Hafsat, along with six others, over alleged misappropriation of state funds and diversion of landed properties. &nbsp; An arraignment summon indicates that Ganduje and the other respondents will face an eight-count charge, including allegations of dollar bribery, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26567,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26540\/revisions\/26567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}