A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order for the temporary forfeiture of N1,109,230,000.00 allegedly moved illegally out of the Kano State Federation Account domiciled with the United Bank for Africa (UBA)
Justice Emeka Nwite issued the order on Tuesday while ruling on an ex parte motion filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and moved by its lawyer, Oluwafunke Bada.
Justice Nwite was of the view that the request was meritorious and should be granted.
The judge also ordered that the forfeiture order be published in any national daily for any person interested in the money to appear before the court and show cause why the funds should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.
Justice Nwite then adjourned the matter till January 21, 2026, for the report of compliance.
The ICPC stated in an affidavit filed along with the motion, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/2634/2025, that the N1,109,230,000.00 was currently domiciled in the ICPC Recovery Account.
The ICPC stated that the money was recovered in the course of investigating a petition numbered: ICPC/P/NC/564/2024 by the ICPC and that the funds were reasonably suspected to have been proceeds of unlawful activities.
It claimed to have received a petition dated August 19, 2024, from some concerned citizens of Kano State, who alleged that two billion, three hundred million naira (2,300,000,000.00) had been withdrawn from the Kano State Federation Account: 1026282580 domiciled with UBA in cash and used for purposes not related to government business.
The commission added that in the course of investigation, its operatives discovered that on November 9, 2023, the Accountant-General (AG) of Kano State, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, authorised the payment of N1.1 billion to two Bureau de Change (BDC) companies.
It added, “Gali Muhammad Dahiru handed over the said $1,000,000.00 cash to Abdullahi Ibrahim Rogo as directed by Nasiru Adamu at the Kano State Liaison Office in Asokoro, Abuja.
“Abdullahi Ibrahim Rogo admitted collecting the money in his statement to the ICPC dated 9th of September, 2025.”
The ICPC said it was able to recover from the two companies a total of N1,109,230,000.00 out of the N1,170,000,000.00 allegedly moved illegally from the Kano State Federation Account.
It said the N1,109,230,000.00 was paid in two instalments, each of N570,000,000 and N539,230,000 on February 27 and March 21.
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