The police have arrested a former chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhuyi Rimingado, in Abuja.
Rimingado was arrested at the Sokoto governor’s lodge in Abuja, where he went for screening as a Kano governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Police Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed the arrest in a telephone interview in Kano.
“Yes, it’s true that Muhiyi was arrested at the Sokoto governor’s lodge in Abuja,” Haruna said.
It was gathered that policemen whisked Rimingado away after his screening and took him to the FCT Police Command.
On March 28, 2022, the police in Kano laid siege to the suspect’s residence but failed to arrest him.
Rimingado was suspended in July 2021 after opening a probe on alleged financial scandals and inflated contracts awarded to some companies allegedly linked to the governor’s family.
On March 1, 2022, a Federal High Court sitting in Kano dismissed an ex parte application filed by Rimingado seeking to stop an investigative panel instituted by the Kano State House of Assembly and the police from investigating, arresting or intimidating him, pending the hearing and determination of subsisting court action instituted at the state High Court.
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