Alledged fraud: Kano first lady, Mrs Ganduje arrested

Kano State first lady, Mrs Hafsat Ganduje has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over bribe and land scam she got herself involved.

It was gathered that the anti-graft agency had invited her through a letter weeks earlier to report at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja for interrogation, but she declined to honour the invitation.

Her travails began after her biological son, Abdullazeez Ganduje petitioned her to the EFCC alledging bribe and land scam, instead she travelled to the United Kingdom to attend the graduation ceremony of her son.

She is being questioned right at the EFCC uptill 6.00pm on Monday in Abuja

A source confirmed to journalism that
“she was arrested on Monday evening.”

“Mrs Ganduje was still at EFCC headquarters as of 6pm.

CAPITAL POST recalled that Abdulazeez had dragged his mother, Hafsat Ganduje, to the EFCC, sources familiar with the matter said, suggesting a pattern of corruptly using family access to power for private enrichment.

Kano State governor, had previously been involved in a corruption-related scandal that earned him “Gandollar”. He has struggled to untangle himself from the public perception that he is a corrupt public servant since 2018 when Daily Nigerian published a series of videos that showed the governor collecting money from a government contractor.

According to sources who saw Abdulazeez’s petition, he reported that he was approached by a property developer to help facilitate the acquisition of some plots of land in Kano with some hundreds of thousands of US dollars and at least 35 million naira as “facilitation commission”.

But after three months, the property developer discovered that the plots of land he wanted and had paid the first family for had been allocated to other buyers and he then requested to be refunded.

Meanwhile, in the heat of all these land scam controversies, Abdullazeez has reportedly fled to Egypt.