EFCC drags suspect to court over alleged N4.3m rice deal fraud in Maiduguri

The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), connected Thursday, arraigned 1 Abdullahi Aminu earlier Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting successful Maiduguri implicit an alleged fraud involving N4.3 million.

A connection issued by EFCC said the suspect was brought earlier the tribunal connected a one-count complaint of transgression misappropriation involving the sum of N4,305,000.00 (Four Million, Three Hundred and Five Thousand Naira).

The complaint reads: “That you, Abdullahi Aminu sometimes successful 2025 astatine Maiduguri, Borno State, wrong the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly person to your ain usage the aggregate sum of N4,305,000.00 (Four Million, Three Hundred and Five Thousand Naira), monies belonging to Jibrin Abdulrahman purportedly arsenic outgo for the proviso of rice, thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 296 and punishable nether Section 297 of the Borno State Penal Code Law and Other Matters Connected Therewith Law, 2023.”

The defendant, however, pleaded “not guilty” to the complaint erstwhile it was work to him.

Following his plea, prosecution counsel A.D. Abdulmalik asked the tribunal for a proceedings day and besides urged that the suspect beryllium ...