EFCC arraigns fake NNPC GMD for alleged N65.15million fraud
- The EFCC has arraigned one Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (alias Ishaku Abdulrazak)
- Shuaibu was arraigned before Justice P. Mallong of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna
- The accused is facing four-count charges that border on impersonation and fraud to the tune of N65,150,000
The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, September 25 arraigned one Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (alias Ishaku Abdulrazak).
Shuaibu was arraigned before Justice P. Mallong of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna on four-count charges that border on impersonation and fraud to the tune of N65,150,000.
Shuaibu’s had some time in 2017 introduced himself as NNPC’s Group Managing Director, finance and accounts to a businessman, Mallam Faisal Safiyanu, whom he promised to assist in the procurement of between 2,000mt to 2,500mt of petroleum products.
Over a period of time, the plaintiff paid a total sum of N65,150,000 to the defendant in three installments.
After the payments, all efforts by the victim to get the defendant supply the promised petroleum products proved abortive.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges, prompting the prosecution counsel, M. Lawal to pray the court for a commencement date of trial and for the defendant to be remanded in prison custody pending trial.
Counsel to the defendant, Sule Shuaibu, however, prayed the court to grant his client bail to enable him to prepare for his trial-a prayer that was objected to by the prosecution-who feared the defendant would jump bail.
Justice Mallong ordered the accused to be remanded in prison custody and fixed Monday, September 30 for the hearing of the bail application.
Meanwhile, acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has said the commission is not selective in its fight against corruption in the country.
According to Magu, the majority of the people accusing the commission of being selective in the fight against corruption were the most corrupt individuals in the country.
He further explained that most of the suspected corrupt individuals arrested by the commission had never denied their involvement in the allegations against them.
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