Kano commissioner, 2 others arraigned over N5.9m land scam

A serving commissioner in the Kano State Ministry of Land and Physical Planning, Alhaji Faruk Bibi Faruk; as well as the permanent secretary and director respectively in the ministry, Alhaji Mahmud Bello Bari and Ahmad Ibrahim were yesterday arraigned before a state high court over an alleged N5.9 million land scam.

The accused, arraigned for three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and criminal breach of trust, had sometime in April 2016 conspired among themselves to sell out a plot of land to one Baba Sharu Dala in the sum of N5m and issued him with a letter of grant in respect of the said property, according to the prosecution counsel, Barrister Rabi Ibrahim Waya.

Waya also told the court that the accused  commissioner, permanent secretary and director had sometime in May this year issued out two occupancy permits; C8 and C21 at Kuyan ta Inna, Kumbotso local government area in fictitious names of Aisha Kabeer and Maryam Ado which were sold at N300, 000 each.

Daily Trust, December 9

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