Almost a week after operatives of the
The anti-graft agency's operatives had on Monday picked up Idris while on his way to
As of Friday, the top government official was still with the crack detectives of the commission answering various questions bordering on money laundering and diversion of public funds. The commission alleged that Idris had laundered the money through landed property acquired in various places.
Findings by
One of the property allegedly belonging to Idris include the famous
It was reliably gathered that Idris has bought different property within the ancient city, where he is already converting some of them to private schools and hospitals.
A resident of Daneji, who spoke to our correspondent anonymously, said when it comes to buying lands, Idris usually offers a higher price than the prevailing market price, making him the preferred buyer.
Further findings also revealed that the suspended
In the same vein,
Apart from other property acquired in different areas, checks by our correspondent also revealed that one of the properties being used by his venture, Gezawa Commodity and Exchange Market, located in Gezawa Local Government Area of the State, was valued at N4.5bn.
The market was granted operational license to commence operation in 2021 by the
A visit to the market showed that the market was designed in three phases on an eight hectare land for the first phase.
Idris had at a time disclosed that the land on which the commodity exchange market was situated, is family land he inherited and further acquired other lands within the area to develop the market.
It was initially believed that the venture is a private sector-led initiative, the first of its kind in
In 2020, when he received members of Kano Concern Citizens Initiative in his office, the suspended official said he nurtured the idea of developing the market since 2014 in order to develop agricultural enterprises and other businesses in the state.
"This is the largest commercial one-stop hub, it is a strategy to actualize the goal of self-reliance, economic diversification and development of this country," he had described the investment.
Nigerians enraged
Some Nigerians, both online and offline expressed anger over the allegations against the
They premised their concerns upon the present situation of universities and polytechnics' teachers who had always been at loggerheads with the accountant-general because of the introduction of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) for the payment of federal workers' salaries.
A lecturer in the
"Nigerians might be surprised but we, members of ASUU are not surprised because we had uncovered his sharp practices where he was using IPPIS to siphon public funds, and we had since made this public," Danladi said.
In the same view, President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an exclusive interview with this newspaper on Tuesday, disclosed that apart from the fact that IPPIS has been shortchanging ASUU members by the IPPIS, many of them are still being owed salaries ranging between 8 to 13 months.
"We have said it over and over again that IPPIS is a fraud. We have also said that the Accountant-General office is a fraud, and they are just using IPPIS to relocate all the fraud activities to one centre which is the Accountant-General office and we have been vindicated. That is our position.
"This IPPIS, I can tell you as we speak, says that many of our members have not been paid for 13 months, 8 months, 9 months but they are telling the government that they are using it to control corruption," Osodeke had said.
The federal government had on Wednesday announced the suspension of the embattled accountant-general with a view to allowing a thorough investigation.
In a letter conveying Idris' suspension, the Minister of Finance, Mrs
According to her, the accountant-general's suspension was in line with the public service rules.
"Following your recent arrest by EFCC on allegations of diversion of funds and money laundering, I write to convey your suspension from work without pay effective
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