Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado has been reinstated as the Chairman of the Kano Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) with immediate effect, according to an order from the National Industrial Court in Kano.
The respondents in the case are the Kano State government and the State House of Assembly.
Delivering the judgement Tuesday, Justice Ebeye David Eseimo Isele, said the claimant was denied a fair hearing and that the Kano House of Assembly lacked the power whatsoever to dismiss or to recommend dismissal of the claimant without recourse to the principles of fair hearing.
The judge held that the claimant was consequently wrongfully dismissed and thereby ordered his reinstatement with immediate effect.
Muhuyi was summarily suspended and later removed from office by former Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje after the state assembly said it investigated and uncovered several anomalies against him.
But he told journalists that the then government decided to axe him because he was investigating some capital projects in which the name of the first family featured.