A former chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), Muhuyi Rimingado, has been arrested.
Rimingado was arrested at the Sokoto Governor’s Lodge in Abuja, where he went for screening as Kano governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He was whisked away immediately after his screening and took him to the FCT Command.
The former PCACC chief would be transported to Kano to face criminal charges.
The police, on March 28, in Kano laid siege to Mr Rimingado’s residence but failed to arrest him.
In July last year, Rimingado was suspended. And in on March 1, a Federal High Court sitting in Kano dismissed an ex parte application filed by Mr Rimingado, seeking to stop an investigative panel instituted by Kano State House of Assembly and restrain the police from investigating, arresting or intimidating him, pending the hearing and determination of subsisting court action instituted at state high court.
The Kano State House of Assembly had invited Mr Rimingado to appear before its ad-hoc committee investigating a petition against him on July 14, 2021.
Citing health grounds and attaching medical records to boot, Rimingado demanded a certified true copy of the petition the assembly received against him and requested for more time appear.
The National Hospital, on July 19, 2021, wrote to the Kano State House of Assembly, saying the medical records he presented to the House were fake.
