Operatives of Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday allegedly assaulted suspended Chairman of the commission, Muhuyi Magaji Rimin-Gado.
Two men that claimed to be operatives of the agency stormed the residence of the former boss of the agency located in Sharada quarters in a tinted blue Honda car with registration number Lagos (MUS- 402AT) around 6:30pm.
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The suspected operatives of the agency told Rimingado that they have come to arrest him on the directives of its chairman.
Argument engulfed between the the two operatives and the former chairman, who resisted the plan for his arrest.
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According to an eye witness, the former chairman doubted the authenticity of the operatives’ claims, as according to him it was un’aula for the operatives of the agency to for an arrest around that hours in mufti.
however, when the agency’s operatives realized that the former chairman of the commission would not cooperate with them, they tried to drag him into the parked vehicle and in the process they tore his clothes.
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Following the quick intervention of the neighbors, the two suspected operatives of the the agency were apprehended and handed over to Police at Sharada Police Divisional Office.
