Posted by In an attempt to defend his rights in the purported case of palliative diversion, Alhaji Shehu Wada Sagagi, the chief of staff to Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, has filed a lawsuit against the Economic Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, APC Youth Merger Group, Mujahid Zaitawa, and the commissioner of the Kano State Police.
An injunction prohibiting the EFCC and its agents, police, and other security agencies from detaining or prosecuting the Chief of Staff in the subsequent purported palliative diversion has already been granted by the Kano State High Court, which is presided over by Justice Aisha Ya’u.
The court granted the restraining order, which reads as follows: “After reading the motion ex parte and the accompanying affidavit, an order is granted restraining the 1st respondent (EFCC) and particularly the 4th respondent (Police) from making an arrest of the complainant until the motion on notice is decided, which is scheduled for hearing on the 3rd day of September 2024.”
D.Y. Gambo, Sagagi’s attorney, filed the case.
It was rumored that the Chief of Staff had misappropriated palliative rice that the federal government had provided to the state.
Muhyi Magaji Rimin Gado, the head of the Kano State anti-graft panel, has, nevertheless, absolved him of any wrongdoing and maintained that the food was intended for his orphans’ Islammiyya School.
Mujahid Zaitawa, the chairman of the APC Youth Group, has brought the matter before the EFCC in an attempt to have the governor’s chief of staff charged.