The nephew of the leader of the New Nigeria People Party, Musa Garba Kwankwaso has resolved to approach a court of competent jurisdiction to contest the investigation initiated against him by the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission…..For More READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The indication emerged, Thursday., after he was questioned by the Commissions interrogators for his role in the controversial drug supply contract to the 44 local government areas of the state.
A leading member of his legal team confided to Daily Sun that they are heading to court to challenge their concurent invitations by three anti – graft agencies over the same case.
According to him, ” We are invited here today. We were also invited to appear before the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) on Monday I also know that the All Progressives Congress has sent a petition against us to the EFCC And usually EFCC”s petitions go to Abuja before they send you an invitation*
“So as it is ,we are being investigated at the same time by three anti corruption agencies. That is the ground of our going to court” he stated.
He said that contrary to the falsehood in the public domain, his client was awarded a legitimate contract and has been executing the contract in line with the terms of the contract.
“The contract is a single line contract of N10 million for each of the 44 local government areas amounting to N440 million short of the withholding tax and other state levies” he remarked .
He noted that the contract was awarded just two weeks ago adding that the supplies of these drugs have do far been made to 12 local government areas in the state
According to him, “What happened was that whoever was the whistle blower deliberately distorted the facts for his own purposes and gave the impression that monies were just dumped in an account and no drug has been supplied to any local government area
” The second mischief he did was to imply that the contract was to run for a year so that the total purported figure of money involved would be mind blowing. But the fact is that this is single one off contract and nothing more”
He explained that if there were breaches of government’s procurement laws as alleged it is the responsibility of the officials of the state government to ensure that they implement these laws. The burden is not the supplier.
It could be recalled that the nephew of the leader of the New Nigeria People Party who is also the Managing Director of Novomed pharmaceuticals is being investigated for his role in an alleged multi-million naira drug supply contract scandal
At the time of filing this report, he is still at the office of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti Corruption Commission in the state…..For More READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
