Kano Assembly will no longer investigate Emir for corruption

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May 22, 2017 3:43 PM

The decision was taken because Governor Abdullahi Ganduje begged the lawmakers to abandon the investigation.

Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

The Kano State House of Assembly has suspended its

This was disclosed by House Speaker, Alhaji Kabiru Rurum on Monday, May 22, according to Daily Trust.

According to Rurum, the decision was taken because Governor Abdullahi Ganduje begged the lawmakers to abandon the investigation.

The House had, on Wednesday, May 10, set up an eight-man committee to investigate the Emir following a petition raised by the lawmaker representing Nasarawa constituency, Ibrahim Ahmad Gama.

The legislators accused Sanusi of spreading false information on Governor Ganduje’s recent trip to China.

They also accused Sanusi’s emirate of approving and spending funds without the approval of the governor and the Assembly.

Sanusi recently criticized the Kano government for taking a $2 billion loan from China to finance a light rail project.

“We have governors, they go to China and spend one month on a tour and what do they come back with, MoU on debts,” the emir said on Wednesday, April 5, during a conference in Kaduna.

“China will lend you $1.8bn to build light rail. This light rail will be done by the rail workers from China. The trains will come from China. The engines will come from China. The labour comes from China. The driver is Chinese.

“At the end of the day, what do you benefit from it? Your citizen will ride on a train and when you ride on a train, in northern Nigeria, in a state like Kano or Katsina, where are you going to? You are not going to an industrial estate to work. You are not going to school? You are not going to the farm. You borrow money from China to invest in trains so that your citizens can ride on them and go for weddings and naming ceremonies,” he added.

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Sanusi has also criticized the Federal Government for borrowing mindlessly adding that its current economic model would not work.

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