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EFCC ARRAIGNS ONE FOR N1.6M FRAUD IN MAIDUGURI. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE


 EFCC Arraigns One for N1.6m Fraud in Maiduguri


The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 arraigned one Alhaji Abba Umar before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court,  Maiduguri.


The defendant was arraigned on a one-count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N1, 600,000.00 (One Million and Six Hundred Thousand Naira)


The charge reads: "That you, Alhaji Abba Umar, sometimes in March, 2022 in Maiduguri, Borno State, within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced Modu Goni Sheriff to deliver to you his title document of a plot of land measuring 450 square meters with right of occupancy no. BO/46605/4 dated 19/03/2002 in the name of Mohammed Goni Umar and located at No. BOTP/178 Abbaganaram Housing Estate where you sold the same plot of land to another person at the rate of N1,600,00.00 (One Million and Six Hundred Thousand Naira) which you are yet to deliver 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 defendant pleaded 'not guilty' to the charge when it was read to him.  Thereafter, prosecution counsel,  S.O Saka prayed for a trial date and the remand of the defendant in a Correctional Centre.


Justice Kumaliya thereafter adjourned till June 4, 2025  and remanded the defendant in a Maiduguri Correctional Centre.


His journey to the correctional facility started when a title document for a plot of land located at Abbaganaram Housing Estate was entrusted to him and he sold the same plot of land to another without the consent of the owner.

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