Sanusi II replies query, says Emirate had N1, 89bn, not N3.4bn in 2014

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The Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II on Saturday replied the query issued him by the Kano State government on Thursday over alleged misappropriation of N3.4billion, obstruction of investigation by the Emirate Council. Sanusi Sanusi II’s one-page reply with reference number /CF/FIN/1/162, dated June 7, 2019, signed by the Acting Secretary to the Kano Emirate Council, Alhaji Abba Yusuf and addressed to the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) said he could not have been liable in the alleged misappropriation since he was neither the accounting officer not the council secretary. He also said when he was installed as the emir in 2014, the Emirate Council had only N1, 89 billion, and not the N3.4 billion the Kano State anti-graft agency said was siphoned between 2014 and 2017 saying ‘ as at the time His Highness was appointed Sarkin Kano the exact amount in the account of the Kano Emirate Council was N1,893,378,923.38 (One Billion Eight Hundred and Ninety Three Million, Three Hundred and Seventy Eight Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty Seven Naira, Thirty Eight Kobo Only). ‘I am directed to refer to your letter No. SSG/OFF/03/V.I, dated June 6th, 2019 to which was attached a copy of the report of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Chairman containing some allegations of financial misappropriation of the sum of N3.4 billion by the Kano Emirate Council. You may wish to note that at the time His Highness was appointed Sarkin Kano, the exact amount in the account of the Kano Emirate Council was N1,893,378,923.38 (One Billion Eight Hundred and Ninety Three Million, Three Hundred and Seventy Eight Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty Seven Naira, Thirty Eight Kobo Only). ‘It is also important to note that His Highness, Sarkin Kano is not the Accounting Officer of the Kano Emirate Council, but the Secretary of the Council.