EFCC Docks Mama Boko Haram, Three others over Alleged N42m Fraud, Secures Conviction of Another

The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 secured the conviction of one Alhaji Gaji Goni Bukar whom Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court slammed two years imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and obtaining the sum N1, 250,000.00 (One Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira).

The convict was first arraigned on Tuesday, January 29, 2020 alongside Habu Aji on a two-counts bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretense.

At the resumed hearing, Goni pleaded guilty of conspiracy, prompting Justice Fadawu to convict and sentence him as charged.

The convict’s plea for leniency earned him N200, 000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira) option of fine.

In another development, the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Commission, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil (Mama Boko Haram) alongside Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura, Price Lawal Shoyade and Mallam Adamu Sani before Justice Jude Dagat of the Federal High Court, Maiduguri on a-two count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N42, 000,000.00 (Forty-two Million Naira)

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