BREAKING: EFCC arrests Kano Assembly Speaker, seven other members

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EFCC says it was responding to petition against Speaker

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the Speaker of the Kano state House of Assembly, Gambo Sallau, and seven other members of the House.

Confirming the arrest, the Spokesperson of the EFCC, WIlson Uwujaren, said the lawmakers were invited by the commission to answer questions following a petitionagainst them.

“It is true they were invited for questioning in respect of a petition against them for abuse of supplementary processes,” he said.

Mr. Uwujaren also said the Speaker and the other officials responded to the Commission’s invitation on Monday at its Kano Office. He however said, the lawmakers were being transferred to the Commission’s Headquarters in Abuja as the petition was received in Abuja.

Although Mr. Uwujaren did not specify the number of the Assembly officials invited, a source at the Assembly informed PREMIUM TIMES that seven other lawmakers were arrested alongside the Speaker.

A source in the Kano Government said the arrest of the lawmakers has stalled the plan by Governor Musa Kwankwaso to present the state’s 2014 budget to the Assembly.

Governor Kwankwaso is one of the five PDP governors who recently defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress. The arrested lawmakers are said to be allies of the governor.

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