The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, September 19, 2024, arraigned Hamza Dauda Umar, Abdulrahman Goni, and Abdulmutalib Abdullahi before Justice Muhammad Maina of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, for fraud.
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The trio were docked on a twelve-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, criminal breach of trust, conspiracy, using forged documents as genuine, false information and forgery to the tune of N3,300,000.00 (Three Million, Three Hundred Thousand Naira only).
Count five of the charge reads: “That you, Hamza Dauda Umar, Abdulrahman Goni, and Abdulmutalib Abdullahi and Bashir Dawud (now at large) on or about December, 2023 in Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did agree amongst yourselves to do an illegal act, to wit: mischief and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Sections 59 and 60 of the Borno State Penal Code Law and other matters connected therewith (No. 3 Vol. 48 Law 2023) respectively.”
The Defendants pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges when they were read to them, prompting prosecution counsel, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed, S.O Saka and Faruk Muhammad to pray the court to fix a trial date.
Justice Maina thereafter, adjourned the matter till September 25, 2024, for trial and remanded the defendants in Maiduguri Corectional Centre.
In another development, Justice Muhammad Maina of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri has remanded Ahmed Saleh Mubi and Goni Bukar Ali in Maiduguri Corectional Centre.
The Defendants were arraigned on Thursday, September 19, 2024, by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one- count separate charges for criminal misappropriation to the tune of N21,961,200.00 (Twenty One Million, Nine Hundred and Sixty one Thousand, Two Hundred Naira only)
