Court restrains arrest of Kano anti-graft agency boss by EFCC, CCB, ICPC

The Independent Corrupt Practises and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, are prohibited from questioning the Chairman of the Kano Public Complaints and Anti Corruption Commission, Barrister Muhyi Magaji Rimin Gado.

The judgement, which forbade the agencies from further interfering in the business of the anti-graft agency, was slammed by a Kano State High Court.

According to reports, the state anti-corruption commission received letters from the EFCC and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) requesting an investigation into the organization's operations and those of its chairman, Barr. Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado.

The Kano State Attorney General, the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, and Barrister Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado are listed as the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, and the EFCC, CCB, and ICPC are listed as the respondents, per the court order.

In the order granted on Monday, Justice Farouk Lawan Adamu said it was made by way of interim injunction restraining the respondents either by themselves, agents, staff, privies or whosoever from inviting, threatening, coaxing, cajoling, arresting, or in any way or manner interfering, meddling, or interloping in the affairs of any staff or person under the services of the plaintiffs, by whatever designation or nomenclature called, pending the hearing and determination of the originating motion.

The court then put the matter on hold until September 25th, 2023, when the originating motion will be heard.

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