Alleged fraud: Zulum removes lawmaker, Ngoshe’s name from commissioner-nominees list

Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum has removed Ibrahim Ngoshe’s name from the list of commissioner-nominees submitted to the state House of Assembly for screening on Friday.

The governor was said to have submitted the list to the lawmakers on Friday.

However, Zulum’s spokesperson, Mallam Isa Gusau, disclosed in a statement on Saturday, that the governor had later removed Ngoshe’s name from the list and also informed the house of his decision.

Ngoshe, a native of Southern Borno senatorial district of Gwoza local government area, was among the All Progressives Congress aspirants who contested for the Gwoza State Constituency ticket but he lost.

According to Gusau, the number of commissioner-nominees submitted to the state House of Assembly for screening is now 17, as against the 18 initially submitted.

It is unclear if Ngoshe’s case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission triggered the governor’s action.

In March, the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the anti-graft agency arraigned Ngoshe before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, on a count of criminal misappropriation to the tune of N24,000,000.00, which he had pleaded “not guilty” to. Punch