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EFCC ARRAIGNS TWO FOR FALSE INFORMATION IN KADUNA . (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE


 EFCC Arraigns Two for False Information in Kaduna 


The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned the duo of Shehu Abdu and Isah Saidu before Justice A.Isiaka for giving false information to the Commission.


The defendants who were arraigned on Monday, June 2 2025  are being prosecuted for falsely presenting themselves as friends to Ji Zhou, a Chinese, who was arrested by the EFCC for illegal mining of solid minerals and economic sabotage. 


Abdu and Isah while standing as sureties to Zhou for EFCC’s administrative bail, claimed that he was well known to them and promised to produce him whenever he was needed by the Commission and agreed to forfeit the sum of N10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Naira) bail bond if they fail to do so. The suspect was released to them based on the assurances. However, they failed to produce the suspect when he was needed, disclosing that they didn’t know him, but were rented by the suspect through his lawyer with the sum of N40,000 (Forty Thousand Naira) to stand as his sureties.


The charge against Abdu reads: “That you, SHEHU ABDU, on or about the 8th of May, 2023, in Kaduna, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court gave false information to a public servant which made him to release one one Ji Zhou on administrative bail, an act which he would not have done had the true state of facts were known to him and which information you knew was false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 105(a) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under Section 105 of the same Law.”


 


The charge against Saidu reads: “That you, ISAH SAIDU, on or about the10th of May, 2023, in Kaduna, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, gave false information to a public servant which made him to release one one Ji Zhou on administrative bail, an act which he would not have done had the true state of facts were known to him and which information you knew was false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 105(a) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under Section 105 of the same Law.”


 

They pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, following which prosecution counsel, Y.J Matiyak Esq urged the court for a trial date and for the defendants to be remanded in the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Kaduna pending their trial.


Justice Isiaka adjourned the case till June 16, 2025 for the ruling on their bail application and ordered that the defendants be remanded in Kaduna Correctional Centre.

More photos below. 



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