Other defendants in the case are former Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Sani Makana, and former Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Lawal Rufai as well as ex-ALGON Chairman, Lawal Dankaba.
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The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Shema had challenged the jurisdiction of the High Court to hear the case, but lost at the Court of Appeal in Kaduna.
For me, the Katsina graft war is like all others in the other states where incumbent governors are also up in arms against their predecessors with scant regard for fact and due process
When the case was called on Tuesday, counsel for the accused persons, J. B. Daudu, brought a motion challenging the jurisdiction of the court and the competency of the charge
Liman, however, told the commission that the former governor had filed a case before the Court of Appeal, Kaduna on infringement of his fundamental human rights
The KASROMA’s Managing-Director, Alhaji Abdulaziz Mohammed, made this known when he presented a memo before the Katsina State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday
He said it was his former boss, Shema, who asked him to summon a security meeting on March 26, 2015
Ingawa disclosed this in Katsina during cross-examination before the Katsina State Judicial Commission of Inquiry chaired by Justice Muhammad Surajo
The Special Adviser on Budget in Katsina State, Abdullahi Imam, who made the revelation when he testified in the commission, said the cash withdrawal contravened the policy on e-payment system
The counsel to the commission, Hassan Liman (SAN), told the commission that all efforts to reach Shema at his residence in Katsina and Dutsin-ma were not successful
They left Alhaji Musa Nashuni in the contest, who they alleged Governor Ibrahim Shema was trying to impose as the PDP candidate against the wish of party members
The passage followed the report on the budget presented by the Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Hon. Abdu Danshehu
He said the colleges were expected to commence operation in 2014 and government had concluded plans to recruit 1,000 additional teachers for its secondary schools
Kaikai said while issuing out the grant to some of the beneficiaries at Unguwar Tsamiya village in Kaita Local Government Area of the state on Thursday, that each of the girls would receive N5,000