The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 3, 2025, arraigned a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Professor Usman Yusuf before Justice Chinyere E. Nwecheonwu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Kuchiako Kuje.
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| EFCC arraigns former NHIS boss, Usman Yusuf, for alleged ₦90m fraud |
Usman was arraigned on a five count-charge bordering on embezzlement, conferring undue advantage, and fraud to the tune of N90,439,178.00( Ninety Million, Four Hundred and Thirty-Nine Thousand, One Hundred and Seventy-Eight Naira only)
Count one reads: “That you, Prof Ismab Yusuf sometime between 2016 and July 2017, whilst being Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, and being a public officer in the services of National Health Insurance Scheme used your position to confer unfair advantage to yourself when you approved the purchase of a vehicle for yourself at the cost of N49.197,750 against the appropriated budget sum of N30,000,000.00 and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22 and punishable under the same Section of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Act, 2000.”…
EFCC Arraigns Former NHIS Boss, Usman Yusuf for Alleged N90m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 3, 2025, arraigned a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Professor Usman Yusuf before Justice Chinyere… pic.twitter.com/zazgDa5bla
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