The outgoing Chairman of Kuje Local Government Area, Abuja, Tete Ishaku Shaban, was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday for offences bordering on obtaining by false pretence and abuse of office to the tune of N17.5m (Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira).
The complainant, Najumudeen Gidado, alleged that sometime in 2014, his company, Trade Executive Network Limited, bid for the reconstruction and modernization of Kuje Main Market in Abuja.
According to him, his company was awarded the contract and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed.
Gidado further alleged that Shaban later demanded for the sum of N17.5million to facilitate the approval of the contract for his company, which he obliged.
“I later paid the N17,500,000 into his accounts domiciled in Zenith and FCMB Banks,” Gidado said.
However, Shaban allegedly awarded the contract to another company and refused to refund the petitioner, without any explanation. [EFCC]
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