{"id":51450,"date":"2018-11-23T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=46914"},"modified":"2018-11-23T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:31:53","slug":"efcc-reveals-why-it-cant-probe-governor-ganduje-over-bribe-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/efcc-reveals-why-it-cant-probe-governor-ganduje-over-bribe-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Reveals Why It Can\u2019t Probe Governor Ganduje Over Bribe Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

on during a tweet meet organised by Tap Nitiative for Citizens Development, a public accountability think-tank.<\/p>\n

When Tap Initiative demanded further explanation because the EFCC moved against Ayo Fayose while he was the Governor of Ekiti State, the anti-graft agency said it does not usually \u201cgive out information on investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestigation of anyone for an alleged fraud remains a covert process,\u201d the EFCC added.<\/p>\n

Ganduje has been the subject of several videos, which appeared to show him engaging in contract racketeering.<\/p>\n

At least six of such videos have been published since the first clip was released on October 11.<\/p>\n

The governor could be seen receiving wads of US dollars from persons believed to be public works contractors.<\/p>\n

Ganduje has dismissed the videos as \u201ccloned\u201d and filed a lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Nigerian online newspaper, Jaafar Jaafar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it cannot probe Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, who is accused of receiving millions of dollars in bribe because he enjoys constitutional immunity from criminal proceedings. on during a tweet meet organised by Tap Nitiative for Citizens Development, a public accountability think-tank. When Tap Initiative demanded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1297,54,2346],"class_list":["post-51450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abdullahi-ganduje","tag-efcc","tag-jaafar-jaafar","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}