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Kaduna State High Court has remanded one Alhaji Yusha’u Mohammed Kebbe in prison
custody for alleged fraud in excess of N136.6 million.
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC had Wednesday, November 27, 2019,
arraigned Alhaji Yusha’u before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State
High Court, Kaduna on an eight-count charge, bordering on conspiracy and
criminal breach of trust involving multi-million Naira funds.
This
was contained in a press statement issued Wednesday by the Head, Media and Publicity
of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren and made available to crimefacts.news
According
to the statement, the complainant alleged that in 2006 while he was
in Sudan for a United Nations military operations, the defendant who is
his childhood friend convinced him to invest in some projects that he is
handling, for which he transferred the sum of N80,000,000 (Eight Million Naira)
in local currency to him and $156,200,000 (One Hundred and Fifty-six Million,
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars) for investment, safe keeping and settlement of
personal commitments on his behalf.
The
complainant through enquiries later found out that the defendant diverted all
the monies for his personal use while all the efforts to recover them have
proved abortive till date.
Count
one of the charge read: “That you, Yusha’u Mohammed Ahmed on or about the 16th
day of January, 2017 at Kaduna, within the jurisdiction of the high court of
Kaduna, being entrusted with certain property to wit; the sum of $156,200, 000 (about
N56.6 million only) belonging to Major General K. A, and thereby committed
criminal breach of trust; an offence contrary to Section 311 of the Penal Code
Law Cap. 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria 1963 and punishable under Section 312 of
the same Law.”
He pleaded
not guilty to all the charges, upon which the prosecution team, led by D.
Ademu-Eteh urged the court for a trial date and for the defendant to be
remanded in prison custody, while the defence counsel Y.A. Abass urged the
court to grant him bail.
The
judge remanded him in prison custody and adjourned the case to November 28,
2019 for hearing and possible ruling on the bail application. Værdiborg
