Protesters cart away Ganduje’s corruption trial documents – Gov Yusuf

Abba Yusuf, governor of Kano State, has said all files relating to the alleged corruption case against Umar Ganduje, national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have been carted away from the Kano State High Court by violent protesters.

The Kano State High Court was among several other places vandalised and set ablaze in the recent EndBadGovernance protests when thousands of Nigerians hit the streets across the country.

Governor Yusuf, who paid an assessment visit to the state high court, on Wednesday, expressed worry that the corruption case files of former Governor Ganduje had been removed from the court.

The governor, who was conducted around the court premises by Haruna Isah Dederi, the attorney-general and commissioner of justice, Abdullahi Bayero, chief registrar of the high court, and some judges, expressed dissatisfaction with the disappearance of the corruption case files.

According to Sanusi Bature, the governor’s spokesperson, in a statement, Yusuf described the vandalisation as a mission by hired miscreants.

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“It is unfortunate that enemies of Kano State hired undesirable elements to vandalise one of the historic public buildings with a mission of averting corruption charges against the national chairman of APC and former governor of the state Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, his family and aides.”

The statement added that the miscreants destroyed virtually all units of the high court, including the office of the state chief judge with a loss of more than N1 billion through the stealing of equipment, destruction of offices, burning of cars and other relevant materials crucial to the dispensation of justice.

Governor Yusuf called on the youth in the state to desist from being used by detractors to engage in violence. He should rather concentrate on skills acquisition for a better future, emphasising that the government would not relent in securing the lives and property of the people of Kano.

He assured that the judiciary as the last hope of the common man must be protected at all costs, and directed the immediate rehabilitation of the building and deployment of adequate security for effective justice delivery.