ICPC investigates Shekarau

The immediate past civilian governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, is being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in connection with an alleged N420 million fraud and misappropriation of public funds.A Kano-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) had, in a petition forwarded to the anti-graft agency, alleged that Mallam Shekarau indulged himself in some unwholesome acts in breach of several provisions of the ICPC Act 2000.The former presidential candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) in the April 2011 general election was alleged to have engaged in fraud, abuse of power, inflation of contracts sum, double awards of contracts and other vices in gross violation of the ICPC Act.The petitioner alleged further that Mallam Shekarau engaged in diversion and embezzlement of billions of naira belonging to the state government through an ambiguous expenditure known as reciprocal arrangement.
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