An official of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday evening allegedly assaulted the suspended chairman of the commission in the state, Muhuyi Rimin-Gado.
Two men from the agency were said to have stormed the house of Rimin-Gado in a tinted blue Honda car with registration number MUS- 402AT in Sharada area of the metropolis around 6:30pm claiming that they had come to effect his arrest.
A source who pleaded for anonymity said that the officials, who were without a warrant of arrest insisted that they were at the house of Rimingado on the order of the acting chairman, Mahmud Balarabe, to bring him (Rimin-Gado) to the commission.
The source said an anti-corruption operative, a police inspector, Aminu had in the course of dragging the suspended chairman tore his clothes but his neighbors were able to overpower the officer who was later handed over to Sharada Police Division.
“How can an anti-corruption officer who claimed to be a police officer come and effect an arrest around some minutes to seven in the evening when it is dark with a private car and only the two of them, the source questioned?”
However reacting on the matter, Rimin-Gado said it was an attempted kidnap as the said operative of the commission did not have any identity to show that he was from the anti-graft agency.
“There is even an existing court order that restrained the commission from arresting me,” Rimin-Gado said.
In the court order issued by Justice Amina Aliyu, of the state High Court, the suspended chairman was granted an interim injunction restraining the commission’s acting chairman, his agent or any person acting on his instruction to compel or ask the plaintiff, Rimin-Gado, to appear before any panel or arrest pending the hearing of the motion on notice.
When contacted, the acting chairman of the anti-graft agency, Balarabe, confirmed that the commission operatives were on a surveillance exercise and not to arrest the suspended chairman.
On the allegation of assaulting Rimin-Gado, the acting chairman denied the issue noting that to the best of his knowledge there was no such situation.
“You see when the operatives were at his residence and after introducing himself as a police officer, Rimin-Gado told him (the operative) to leave his premises and threatened to shoot the operative,” Balarabe alleged.
“Muhuyi later shoot the tyres of the car of the police officer,” the commission’s acting chairman further alleged.
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