EFCC, on October 8, 2018
arraigned a serial fraudster identified as Mohammed Sanni Zubair, before
Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja,
on a 4-count charge of fraud.
Zubair, a suspected serial
fraudster, was alleged to be a member of a syndicate, who specialized in
defrauding people.
The long arm of the law
caught Zubair when the children of one Major General Geoffrey Ejiga (retd)
petitioned the EFCC alleging that a syndicate of fraudsters took advantage of
their father’s old age to defraud him of over N180million.
A check on Zubair’s profile
showed that he had previously been arrested by the operatives of the EFCC
sometime in 2016 for a fraud related offence, which he confessed to, saying he
acted under the instruction of one Johnson Abiodun, whose real name was Nuhu
Kasim.
In the course of
investigation, Kasim was arrested in Kano, and it was discovered that the
information given by the defendant against him, was completely false. Hence,
this charge.
One of the counts reads:
“That you, Mohammed Sanni
Zubair on or about October 2016, in Abuja, within the Abuja Judicial Division
of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, did make a statement to Naziru Aminu
Shehu, an officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in the course
of the exercise of the duties of his office, contained in your written
statement dated 28th October, 2016, which you knew to be false and thereby
committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 39 (2) (a) and
(b) of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004”.
The defendant pleaded not
guilty to the counts preferred against him. In view of his plea, the
prosecution counsel, Fatsuma Mohammed, prayed the court for a trial date to
enable the prosecution prove its case.
But, counsel to the
defendant, Joe Agi, SAN, informed the court of the defendant’s application for
bail, which he said was filed and served on the prosecution shortly before the
court started sitting.
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