Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who was declared missing by the group, resurfaced on Friday in a video that has gone viral online.
Recorded in Jerusalem, Israel, with Kanu clad in a white cap and wrapped in a shawl, the video was shared on Facebook by user Castro Nkume, and according to the narration, it seemed to have been taken on Friday. Kanu's 'reappearance' comes after more than a year of his whereabouts being unknown following a raid of his residence by the Nigerian Army on September 14, 2017.
When SaharaReporters spoke to his lawyer, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, he said he could not independently verify if the video was recent, noting that investigation was still ongoing.
GidiWoodsMan: Those bigoted Hausa/Fulani are the biggest hypocrites in the history of this planet. I remember how they dragged, humiliated & shut down the emir of Kano back then, you would expect them to at least live right themselves.
Now look at this ugly old fool Ganduje disgracing his entire family, Kano state and the nation all because of bribe that am sure even Buhari himself collects via proxies. Something a p.a. could have handled on his behalf (not condoning corruption but we know that every single Nigerian politician does this). God just wanted to expose this old thief.
Mtsw you think we condone illigality like your brothers down the south?
Blue3k: Can you imagine Ganduje acting like he wants to sue knowing they have multiple videos and contractors to testify. Funny how the Kano Anti Corruption board and state assembly are pretty quiet on this. I say we should prosecute him in sharia court.
Shari'a court? If he is guilty he will prefer non shari'a court. Some Apc members are trying to defend it. Well I am not a party member but a Nigerian that stand with individuals such as Muhammadu Buhari. Even MBuhari sometimes receive backclash from me not to talk of Ganduje.
- Daily Nigerian newspaper Journalist exposed Governor Ganduje Receiving Bribe From Contactors in a video clip.
- The Video shows the governor receiving $320, 000 part of a series of cash advancement.
- It's 1 of 15 videos of the governor receiving bribe. In the 15 videos the governor received a total of $5M.
- Premium Times watched the video clip with audio & the contractor ask the governor to collect the money & conceal it using his babanriga before someone walks in.
- For the safety of the contractors, the audio was muted for the general public.
- Call me if you want to listen to the clip with audio - Jafar Jafar to a twitter user who asked for the audio.
- The clip was taped by the contractor(s) using a spy camera as advised by Dailynigerian Journalist Jafar Jafar.
- The other 14 videos will released subsequently. - President Muhammadu has ordered a thorough investigation after being shown the video by law enforcement authorities.
- However, even if found culpable after investigation by anti-corruption agencies, Mr Ganduje, as governor, enjoys constitutional immunity from prosecution.
- Amnesty International & New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists call on both the Kano State governor and the Nigerian government to ensure the safety of Jafar Jafar & his family.
“I think you should collect this money before anyone walks in,” one of the contractors could be heard telling the governor.
“I think you should put it on your body to conceal it with your babanriga.”
A scandalous video has been published appearing to show Governor Umar Ganduje pocketing a vast wards of American dollars in what was said to be bribe payments from public works contractors.
The Kano State governor could be seen collecting the dollars before rolling them into his white dress, “babanriga,” in one of a series of questionable deals allegeldly struck over a span of several months.
The first set of at least 15 clips in possession of online-based Daily Nigerian was published on Sunday afternoon by the platform.
The two minutes video was recorded in 2017 in what Daily Nigerian described as a sting operation aimed at beaming a spotlight on the governor’s alleged penchant for contract racketeering.
The governor has debunked the video as “cloned” and threatened a sweeping lawsuit against its publisher. But PREMIUM TIMES’ graphics experts who examined the video corroborated the position of Daily Nigerian, which earlier said its internal and independent graphics analysts have authenticated the clips.
In the only video published so far, the governor appeared to have received $230,000. All the cash was hastily stashed in his “babanriga,” a native attire common amongst men of northern Nigerian origin. Daily Nigerian said the $230,000 was part of a series of cash advancement to the governor in a total bribery deal of $5 million.
The published version was uploaded without audio, apparently to conceal the identify of the contractors from the public.
While Mr Ganduje would readily know those with whom he carried out the exposed deal, the contractors believed their safety would be better guaranteed if their personal identities that could otherwise be obtained from their voices in the video are stripped off.
PREMIUM TIMES saw the version of the clip with audio on Sunday evening. “I think you should collect this money before anyone walks in,” one of the contractors could be heard telling the governor. “I think you should put it on your body to conceal it with your babanriga.”
A brief laughter then erupted amongst them. The video was reportedly shot in one of the living rooms at the governor’s official residence in Kano, the state capital. “MD will soon be back from Istanbul on Friday evening to give us the other allocations,” the contractor added after telling the governor he had concealed a total of $230,000 in his babanriga for the day’s transaction.
The governor and the contractors also discussed carrying state lawmakers along in the deal, especially on how cash and stalls would be shared to them in the deal for the construction of a market. The governor is said to have received up to N750 million (about 25 percent) in a deal of over N3 billion with a single contractor.
Mr Ganduje has denied any wrongdoing. Daily Nigerian said it embarked on the reporting after receiving a slew of complaints from contractors who said the governor regularly engaged in shakedowns before awarding public projects.
Mr Ganduje strongly denied being the one in the video, calling the publisher a blackmailer and ordering the state attorney-general to commence criminal investigation and possible prosecution.
Jafaar Jafaar, an Abuja-based journalist and publisher of Daily Nigerian, told PREMIUM TIMES he has decided to take cover with his family following relentless threats to their safety.
Foremost rights group, Amnesty International, and the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists have both expressed grim worries about Mr Jafaar’s safety, calling on both the Kano State governor and the Nigerian government to ensure neither the journalist nor his family faced any debilitating backlash as a result of his journalism.
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a thorough investigation after being shown the video by law enforcement authorities, Daily Nigerian reported. The presidency is yet to make an official statement on the video. However, even if found culpable after investigation by anti-corruption agencies, Mr Ganduje, as governor, enjoys constitutional immunity from prosecution.
Mr Ganduje, 68, was elected governor as part of the wave that swept the then-opposition All Progressives Congress into power. Like other APC politicians, in a mantra spearheaded by Mr Buhari, the Kano governor often lays claim to own frugal nature and incorruptibility.
Mr Ganduje’s video comes about five years after a video of a federal lawmaker from Kano was also made. Farouk Lawan was leading a House of Representatives panel investigating illicit fuel subsidiary payments in 2012 when he was said to have received about $500,000 dollars in bribes from an oil magnate.
Mr Lawan, widely seen as a rising political star at the time, was seen receiving the cash from businessman Femi Otedola in the manner of Mr Ganduje. Unlike Mr Ganduje, Mr Lawan acknowledged authenticity of the video, but said he was trying to use it to bait Mr Otedola and that federal authorities were informed beforehand.
Mr Otedola denied the claim, saying he was the one who set up the sting operation to expose Mr Lawan and his committee members who were demanding bribes from him even though his oil firm was not involved in any wrongdoing.
Mr Lawan, who was first elected to the federal parliament in 1999, did not return in 2015, and the case is currently proceeding in court.
tech18: Kano Govt Debunks Reported Collection Of Kickbacks By Ganduje 3 days ago Source: Newshawk 23
BY MUSA BABANKADA
Kano State Government has debunked a report alleging that the Governor of Kano State His Excellency Dr Abdullahi U Umar Ganduje was involved in an inappropriate conduct. A statement by the Commissioner, Information, Youth & Culture, Kano State Garba Mohammed said the p blackmail did not come as a surprise to the government and good people of Kano state particularly, at a time when we are approaching general elections. Evidently, Kano being the stronghold of the APC and expected to produce the highest votes in the upcoming general elections is a target of campaign of calumny.
It is also not surprising that the stuff is published by one who has for long been working for the opposition and an antagonist of the APC government in Nigeria.
We wish to state that there is no iota of truth to these allegations and if indeed there is any such alleged video, it is at best cloned. More so, in this era of technological advancements, some evil minded people often take advantage to blackmail and extort and assassinate the character of people that do not " patronize them". It will be recalled that just recently, the Inspector General of Police, the Emir of Kano, Governor of Adamawa and many others were ridiculed when their cloned videos and pictures went viral respectively. It is surprising that the same editor of the online medium making the baseless allegations against the Governor was the one who came out to defend the Emir, arguing that the video was cloned. Indeed it was. .. Indeed it was.
To further prove that the online media is bent on discrediting, blackmailing and assassinating the character of the Governor, the online media has yet to reveal the identity of the giver of the bribe, who is also suppose to be a culprit in the eye of the law. We are therefore calling on the general public to be vigilant as we heard from good authority that many of such cloned videos involving highly placed persons considered as obstacle to the opposition agenda ahead of 2019 will be released in peace meal.
The government of Kano state is taking this matter seriously, and will exploit every appropriate and legal avenue to ensure that it gets to the root of the matter and the perpetrators are brought to book. We also call on the good people of Kano and particularly members of the APC to remain calm and always be law abiding.
His Excellency Governor Ganduje will remain focused on delivering the dividends of democracy to the good people of Kano including other national assignments. He will never succumb to blackmail or negotiate with blackmailers. http://thenewshawkng.com/details/599
Dalla rabu dashi. Sai ansako next videos ma. This is only episode.
Tabuku: Let me throw lights to those who don’t know .Genral Yakubu Gowan is from Plateau State, but I tell you that the Plateau people have disowned him since, he can not contest with a primary school kid and win any post or election in Plateau. He is broke and doing that to get money from the ruling government . He is senior to Buhari in military. Fulanis are killing Plateau people and he is behaving in such.( Shame on him) Late General Murtala Mohammed father was a Christian Berom man who married his mother a Muslims from Kano, after tha father died, he’s mom took him back to Kano and Islamize him at 2 years old he was
abduljabbar4: Compare their votes vs total registered voters.
Then take a look at rivers
Stop wasting your time. He is not educated at all. Where will he get the 5 million votes from a single state when INEC already have the total number of registered voters.
Donmedrac: bla bla I don't care about their folk or about northerners..
I just want a person that can restructure the country let me see how the north will survive
And you ain't getting such because Buhari lo leshe. You will continue to remain a slave under 1 Nigeria protected by the Nigerian Army with the slogan "Victory is from Allah alone" Deal with it.
Imagine if the oil is in the north! They would have scattered Nigeria and take it to their self.
Don't go and work on your deserted land.. worthless almajiris
The oil isn't in the south but Nigeria. But do you know you're a slave to the worthless Almajiri? Are you not ashame of yourself. And by next year you have to queue under the rain or in the sun and cast your vote for another Almajiri.
Whatever Almajiri is, you're lower than that. I suggest you're a pig.
Without the south the north would have been like Somali.
South money made them what they are now..
Imagine Buhari taking billions of naira meant for Bayelsa and taking it to the north..
Parasitic folks
Which one is south money? It does not exist anywhere. The south did not work for any money that the north is coming to take from. I know you're talking on oil. Do you own it? Are you the one who explore or dig it? Was it explore with your money?
Gerarahia lazy Youth. That oil belongs to Nigeria whether you like it or not because it isn't your sweat.
Donmedrac: It's true though,sometimes the truth need to be said even though it's hurt..
The north keep waiting and begging money from the south and south no longer want them,calling the north parasitic.
As for me I will never visit any northern states cause they aren't civilise
Mr. Civility the north doesn't beg money from the south. The north are civilized even when your forefathers are living naked in the bush B4 the coming of the colonialist.
The north have it traditional clothing as well as the prestigious Hausa Language written in Ajami script. They meet us writting and reading.
If you're living anywhere beside Lagos then you're in a state far less developed than Kano state.
Even When you removed the Northcentral from north, the north will still be the largest region. Hausa is our Lungua Franca. It's number second indigenous language in Africa after Swahili.
We are proud of this beautiful language that unite us as one regardless of our minor negligible differences.
hisexcellency34: Don't underestimate the powers of religious leaders especially in the North. Northerners are very gullible and respect their religious leaders. If Gumi says vote Atiku, they will listen to him wella
You're wrong. Gumi is not one of those respected. The respect north have for Buhari 99 : 1 to Gumi.
Gumi have lost 90% of the respect accorded to him. He is considered by the majority as a liar. He made gravious utterance to Islam itself and to the north in general.
The only Religious / traditional Leaders that command the type of respect you stated above have died. And they are Late Emir of Kano Ado Bayero, Sheik Jafar Mahmud Adam and Sheik Abubakar Gumi (Not the one in this thread). May Jannatul Firdaus be their final destination.
tech18: Sheikh Ahmad Gumi is the son of the late most revered Sheikh Abubakar Gumi.Of course,Sheikh Ahmad Gumi doesn't have that followers in the north as he is overrated on the media.His criticism of PMB in 2015 and beyond drew media attention to him and his lectures in Sultan Bello Mosque...I don't need to go further you know this more than I do...
In summary, Sheikh Ahmad is overrated.
Baka ganeba. Nasanshi ai. I mean he is nobody by saying who is sheik Gumi. Bakaji nacema the son ba not the father.
Which one is north newspaper? Seun Lalasticlala Mynd44 you guys are not doing your job. I have never seen you guys write Vanguard, The cable or Punch as South newspaper. What's this?
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If he is guilty he will prefer non shari'a court. Some Apc members are trying to defend it. Well I am not a party member but a Nigerian that stand with individuals such as Muhammadu Buhari. Even MBuhari sometimes receive backclash from me not to talk of Ganduje.
