BREAKING: EFCC Interrogates ex-Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso over alleged fraud
A former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Saturday, turned himself in for interrogation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
This came weeks after the top member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) shunned previous invitations by the anti-corruption agency.
His decision to turn himself in could have been made to avert possible arrest which our reporter learnt was being planned by the commission.
Top EFCC officials, who asked not to be named because they had no permission to speak on the matter,confirmed that Mr Kwankwaso arrived at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja before noon on Saturday.
“This was after repeated invitations not honoured by him,” one of the sources said.
The former governor is being investigated over a 2015 petition by Concerned Kano State Workers and Pensioners, who alleged that he violated the Kano State Pension and Gratuity Law of 2007 in the management of pension remittances amounting to about N10 billion contributed between 2011 and 2015.
Mr Kwankwaso, earlier governed Kano State between 1999 and 2003, before he returned for his second term from 2011 to 2015.
