Views: Visits 6 …Urges Presidency to allow for open investigation By Dirisu Yakubu The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has said the revelation of $65 million (N31billion) fraud in a bank name (Witheld), 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 bank, who had already been declared wanted, and bring him to book alongside his accomplices.”
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.
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1. The Presidency yesterday, dissociated President Muhammadu Buhari from 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. In a statement issued by Buhari’s spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, the Presidency said Kumo was not Buhari’s in-law.
2. Bayelsa State Government on Friday, imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in the state from 8pm to 6am daily as part of measures to prevent the spread of the surging trait of the new variants of COVID-19. The Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Mr Ayibaina Duba stated this yesterday.
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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.
The Presidency has said that the suspect declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, isn't an in-law