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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.
Kumo, a former Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank, got married to Buhari’s daughter in October 2016 in Daura, Katsina State.
However, the presidential aide disclosed that the (marriage) relationship had since ended some years ago.
$65m fraud: Presidency says ex-FMBN boss no longer Buhari’s in-law, PDP demands probe
John Alechenu and Adelani Adepegba
Published 15 May 2021
John Alechenu and Adelani Adepegba
Published 15 May 2021
The Presidency has said that a former Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank, Gimba Yau Kumo, declared wanted for $65 million fraud is no longer a son-in-law to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
This is as the Peoples Democratic Party is demanding the probe of Kumo, who got married to Buhari’s daughter in October 2016 in Daura, Katsina State.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission had declared the fugitive wanted alongside Tarry Rufus and Bola Ogunsola over alleged misappropriation and dispersion of national housing fund.
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Views: Visits 5 President Muhammadu Buhari …Urges Presidency to allow for open investigation By Dirisu Yakubu The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had said the revelation of $65 million (N31 billion) fraud in the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), in which President Muhammadu Buhari’s son-in-law, Gimba Yau Kumo, is reportedly involved, is a confirmation that the Buhari Presidency is “a sanctuary for fraudsters, treasury looters and common criminals.” This is as the party charged the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission ICPC “not to succumb to reported pressure from the cabal in the Buhari Presidency but to track down Yau Kumo, the former Managing Director of the FMBN, who had already been declared wanted, and bring him to book alongside his accomplices.”
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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.