A Kano High Court presided over by Justice Aisha Rabiu Danlami has granted a former Commissioner for Health under Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso regime, Dr Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, bail in a criminal breach of trust case on N200,000 and two sureties in equivalence.
Ruling on the bail application filed by the Counsel to the accused person, Barrister Nuraini Jimoh, Justice Aisha said the case though criminal in nature but is still bailable.
The Kano Anti Corruption and Public Complaints Commission had slammed a three-count charge of criminal breach of thrust on the former Commissioner of Health, Dr Abubakar Labaran Yusuf.
The Commission in a writ of surmon signed and read by the Prosecuting Counsel, Barrister Muhmud Balarabe at the Court sitting, said they are charging the former Commissioner Abubakar Labaran Yusuf alleged conversion of a $94,800.00 equivalent to N15,168,000.00 out of N47.168 million meant for utility bills and other allowances for Kano Students in Mansoura University Cairo Egypt and offence punishable under section 315 of the Panel Code Law.
Another charge according to the writ, the Commission is accusing the former Commissioner Abubakar Labaran of allowing the said amount (47.168 million) to be lost an act that resulted in severe injury to the people and government of Kano, which is an offence punishable under section 123(a) of the penal code.
The third charge slammed on the former Commissioner by the anti-corruption body is an alleged conversion of $94,800.00 a money meant for the Kano students studying in Mansoura Egypt an offence punishable under section 24(a)(1) of the Kano State Public Complaints and anti-corruption Commission Law 2008 as amended.
The Commission presented five lead prosecution Witnesses that would stand in the trial, also the statements of the accused person which is said to have been obtained voluntarily and other evidence would be all tendered in the course of the court judgment.
The presiding Judge Justice Aisha Rabiu Danlami, who rejected all pleas by the prosecuting Counsel Barrister Muhmud that the accused might interfere with the Commission investigation, expressed displeasure on the failure of the State Counsel to served the accused person with the counter affidavit motion.
The State Counsel Barrister Muhmud Balarabe had earlier presented the charged in a summary to the court that includes Criminal breach of trust punishable under section 316 of the criminal code procedure, Non Obeying of the Law punishable under section 183 of the criminal code procedure and corrupt practices punishable under section 24(a) subsection 1 of the Kano Anti Corruption Commission.
The Presiding Judge after admitting that the case is criminal in nature but admits that it is bailable under the law and granted the accused person bail and adjourned the case to 30th April 2018 continuation of the case.