By Ismail Auwal
The embattled ex-Chairman of Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), Muhuyi Magaji, narrowly escaped an attempt to arrest him on Sunday night at his Kano residence.
SAHELIAN TIMES gathered that attempt to arrest him came fours days after Muhuyi returned to Kano from self-imposed exile.
According to a source close to Muhuyi, “We began to notice suspicious movements of unfamiliar faces around the chairman’s residence on Saturday.”
The source said, they suspected it was a surveillance to know whether Muhuyi was aroundor not.
On Sunday evening, the police laid siege to Muhuyi’s residence in an attempt to apprehend him.
Muhuyi then devised a strategy: “his eldest son Zahradeen disguised as chairman, screeched his vehicle’s tyres and fled with supersonic speed.”
The police, apparently mistaking him for Muhuyi, pursued the car and sporadically fired gunshots.
“The chairman silently fled when Dini and the police were out of sight,” said the source.
When our reporter inquired about of the whereabouts of the fugitive Muhuyi, the source stated that no one knows where he is at the time of writing the report, “but that he must be in Kano by now.”
When our reporter called, the mobile phones lines of Muhuyi were all switched off at the time of writing this report.
It could be recalled that SAHELIAN on March 1, broke the news on how a Federal High Court sitting in Kano dismissed an ex parte application filed by Muhuyi seeking to restrain the police from investigating, arresting or intimidating him.
Muhuyi has been in a running battle with Gov. Ganduje since when he threatened to expose what he knew about the latter’s family involvement in some sensitive government issues.
