THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a director of Kebbi State Ministry of Finance, Yahyah Saidu Andarai, and one Farouk Abubaka Uduli for allegedly stealing the sum of N64 million belonging to the Coscharis Motors Ltd.
The suspects were arraigned before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of an Ikeja High Court, Lagos on a 27-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and stealing.
According to the charge filed by EFCC, the defendants were said to have converted the amount being proceed of AX motorcycle property of Coscharis Motors entrusted to them on behalf of Jega National Union Local Government Employees of Kebbi State to personal use.
While Uduli (the second defendant), was charged with two-count charge, the first was charged with all 27-count charge.
The offence, EFCC counsel, Oluwabumi Abosede, said was committed between August 26, 2009 and August 2, 2012, in Maza-Maza area of Lagos.
According to her, the first defendant had sometime in August 2010 stole 20 units of Ax motorcycle valued at N2.2million
The anti-graft agency also said the second defendant had on August 26, 2009, with intent to defraud, converted to his use the sum of N17 entrusted to them by the Jega National Union of Local Government Employees of Kebbi State.
According to the EFCC, the offence committed contravened Section 309 Cap two laws of Lagos State.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges read to them by the court registrar.
After the defendants had taken their plea, an oral application was made by the first defendant's counsel, Odu Hyacinth, that the first defendant should be remanded in EFCC's custody because of his alleged ill health pending when he will meet bail conditions.
The Guardian
Some human beings can just be very selfish. 64 million that can feed over 5000 people for over 50 years, that is what one person want to have all to himself?