DSS arrests 5 over fake market receipts
The Department State Services (DSS) in Anambra State has arrested five persons in connection with an alleged diversion of government funds through issuance of fake receipts at the Ogbaru market.
The Commissioner for Trade, Commerce, Market and Wealth A frontline socio-cultural group, the Kano Renaissance Group, has hailed the management of University of Lagos for bestowing the award of Best Governor on Gombe State Governor, Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, the Talban Gombe, Creation, Dr. Christian Madubuko, said the culprits, including some market leaders, were siphoning government funds into their personal pockets through issuance of counterfeit receipts to traders instead of government certified receipts.
Madubuko, who was accompanied by a team from the DSS, advised the general public to report anybody last Saturday.
In an e-mail signed by the group’s Acting President, Alhaji Sagir Isa, the group said: “Of all the governors in Nigeria, only Dankwambo has in truth unified his diverse people of Gombe, making them appreciate their heterogeneous composition, and reaping caught indulging in such act, stressing that the state government needed money for development of the state.
The President General of Ogbaru Main Market, Chief Victor Nwawuzie, however denied the allegation, saying the only fees he was authorised to collect were storage fees, development levy, legal tax and sanitation levy with issuance of government receipts.
Gunmen shoot Wadada’s aide
Unidentified gunmen Wednesday night shot and wounded Salisu Tanimu Atiku, a Personal Assistant to an APC governorship aspirant in Nasarawa State, Ahmed Aliyu Wadada, in Keffi LGA, the aspirant told Daily Trust yesterday.
Atiku sustained gunshot wounds on his back after the gunmen stopped his vehicle along the main gate of the state university in Keffi around 9:30 pm.
A relative of the victim, Yakubu Shehu, told Daily Trust yesterday that the gunmen brought Atiku down from his vehicle, seized two of his handsets, some money, shot him on his back while lying on the highway and took away his vehicle. Atiku was rushed to hospital and is now recuperating. The incident was reported at the divisional police station in Keffi.
Hon Ahmed Wadada said he didn’t know the motive behind the attack but that it was taken to the police for investigation.
Group hails UNILAG for giving Dankwambo best Governor Award
bountifully from it.”
The Renaissance Group also pointed out that “what Nigeria needs is a reformer, someone that could unify its diverse people and take the country off the edge of precipice that incompetence has pushed it into, not so-called integrity that has led us nowhere.”