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Nigerian governor says armed robbers, not cash-eating gorilla, stole $22,000

Published 18/06/2019, 18:31
Nigerian governor says armed robbers, not cash-eating gorilla, stole $22,000

By Felix Onuah
ABUJA, June 18 (Reuters) - An investigation into the
disappearance of 6.8 million naira ($22,000) from a zoo in
northern Nigeria found it had been taken by armed robbers - not
eaten by a gorilla as widely reported in local newspapers.
Abdullahi Ganduje, the governor of northern Kano state,
had ordered the state's anti-corruption commission to look into
the disappearance of gate fees at the Kano Zoological Gardens.
Nigeria has for years been plagued by corruption and forms
of banditry ranging from armed robberies to kidnapping for
ransom. President Muhammadu Buhari had pledged to improve
security and crack down on graft.
"Preliminary reports indicate that there was armed robbery
at the zoo," Ganduje told reporters after meeting Buhari
together with other governors in the capital, Abuja.
"The issue of (a) gorilla is junk journalism," he said.
"This is because there is ... no gorilla in that zoo."
Last year, a Nigerian sales clerk was suspended after
telling auditors that 36 million naira had been eaten by a
snake.
($1 = 305.9500 naira)

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