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The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 arraigned the duo of Aisha
Alkali Wakil otherwise known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’ and Tahiru Saidu Daura before Justice Aisha
Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a three-count charge of
conspiracy and cheating to the tune of N66million (Sixty-six million Naira).
This was contained in a press statement signed by the spokesman of the Commission, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren and made available to crimefacts.news
According to the statement,
the prosecution of the duo followed a petition written by one Ali Tijjani,
CEO/Managing Director of AMTMAT Global Ventures against Complete Care and Aids
Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), run by the defendants,
wherein the petitioner alleged that, on September 7, 2018, Complete Care and
Aids Foundation awarded his company a contract to supply it processed maize
grain, referred to as “biski” in native language, worth N15million, which the
second defendant, Wakil received on behalf of Complete Care and Aid Foundation
upon delivery.
According to Tijjani, his company upon the request of the
defendants equally processed and funded their trip to Morocco to the tune
of N51million, a cost they refused to defray.
Count two of the charge reads: “That you Tahiru Saidu Daura,
while being a programme manager of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, and Aisha
Wakil, being the CEO of Complete Care and Aid Foundation on the 7th September,
2018, in Maiduguri within the jurisdiction of this honourable court,
dishonestly induced Ali Tijjani, the CEO and alter ego of
AMTMAT Global Ventures to deliver to you, processed maize grains (biski),
valued at N15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Naira) which you are yet to pay and
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320(a) and punishable under
Section 322 of the Penal Code Cap 102 Laws of Borno State.”
The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges, upon which
prosecution counsel, Fatsuma Muhammad applied for a trial date and for the
remand of the defendants in the custody of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS),
pending the determination of the case.
However, counsels for the defendants, H. Waziri and B.G Zanna
made oral bail applications for the defendants, on the ground of the
administrative bail, earlier granted to them by the EFCC.
Justice Kumaliya granted them to bail in the sum of N30million
with two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties he said, must be someone at
the level of a Permanent Secretary in the civil service, who owns a landed
property in Maiduguri GRA, and must submit the title document of the property
to the registry of the court.
The judge further declared that the bail will be revoked on the
failure of the defendants to attend trial. She adjourned hearing on the matter
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