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President Muhammadu Buhari has distanced himself from fugitive fraudster, Gimba Yau Kumo, who was recently declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in connection with a $56 million fraud.
The ICPC yesterday, declared Gimba Yau Kumo, a former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria wanted over an alleged $65 million fraud.
Kumo was at some point a son-in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari, having been once married to one of his daughters, Fatima, in 2016.
In a notice published on the website of the anti graft commission on Thursday, the commission’s spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, said Kumo is declared wanted alongside Tarry Rufus and Bola Ogunsola over misappropriation and dispersion of national housing funds.
The presidency on Friday said Gimba Kumo, declared wanted for $65 million fraud by the
PREMIUM TIMES among other news platforms had reported that Mr Kumo, a former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, married a daughter of Mr Buhari in Daura, Katsina State in 2016.
But a presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said said Mr Kumo “at some point in time” had been “linked” to “a family member in marriage” but that the “relationship has ended some years ago .”
The ICPC in its list of wanted persons declared Mr Kumo wanted alongside Tarry Rufus and Bola Ogunsola over the alleged fraud.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, apply all pressure in tracking down and prosecuting Yau Kumo, a former Managing Director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, for his alleged involvement in the $65 million fraud.
Kumo, a former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria alongside two others – Mr. Tarry Rufus, and Mr. Bola Ogunsola were declared wanted by the ICPC in a statement published on the ICPC website on Thursday and signed by the spokesperson of the commission, Mrs Azuka C. Ogugua.
Kumo is an inlaw of President Muhammadu Buhari. He married Fatima, the president’s daughter, in 2016 at Daura, Katsina state.
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ICPC fugitive is not Buhari’s inlaw – Presidency
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The Presidency says the person declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) is not an inlaw to President Muhammadu Buhari as being claimed in some quarters.
Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
ICPC had declared one Gimba Ya’u Kumo wanted for alleged 65 million dollars fraud.
However, the presidential aide disclosed that the (marriage) relationship had since ended some years ago.
The statement read in part: ”A running story to the effect that the ICPC has declared ‘an inlaw of the President’ wanted in connection with fraud involving the large sum of money, 65 million dollars to be exact.
Kumo married Fatima, the President’s daughter, in 2016 at Daura, Katsina State.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 15, 2021
The Presidency says a former Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank, Gimba Yau Kumo, declared wanted for $65 million fraud is no longer a son-in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Kumo married Fatima, the President’s daughter, in 2016 at Daura, Katsina State.
On Thursday, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), in a notice, declared Kumo wanted alongside Tarry Rufus and Bola Ogunsola over alleged misappropriation and dispersion of national housing funds to the tune of $65 million.
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