Barely two weeks after Kaduna state Governor, Alhaji Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, instructed that an Upper Sharia Court sitting in the state to pay the family of the late Alhaji Yahaya Kwanan Dangora whose N21 million inheritance was allegedly stolen by one Lami Baba Kwasau, a Shari’a court registrar, the family yesterday said the court is yet to refund their inheritance.
The family also said they were stranded in anguish with pressing needs waiting for their inheritance, while they begged Governor Yero to ensure that the stolen inheritance is returned to them as widely reported in the media.
The breadwinner of the family, Alhaji Yahaya Kwanan Dangora, died in 2012, leaving behind 17 children, two wives and aged mother who were billed to inherit monies he left behind in a bank account domiciled in Zaria, Kaduna state, before the registrar absconded with their inheritance.
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he eldest son of the deceased, Abubakar Yahaya, who spoke to VOA Hausa Section monitored in Kaduna, said: “No government or court official contacted us about the governor’s instructions to refund the stolen N21 million inheritance to us disclosed through Attorney General of the state. We went to the court instead but our father’s younger brother said we have no business with her whereabouts, all that we know is our inheritance. Why did they employ someone without traces to his or her contacts?
“They now said that we should give money to get car and security so as to trail her, we said we don’t have money and it is not our responsibility but the judge’s. We don’t know her and have no business and that is how we left the court.”
His two younger brothers, Bashir and Shamsu, who also spoke, begged the governor to come to their aid in view of the excruciating situation; they also thanked all neighbours that had been feeding them.