The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, October 20, 2014 arraigned one
Abubakar Abdullahi before Justice Dije Aboki of Kano State High Court on one
count charge of criminal breach of trust.
According to a press release by the EFCC, the accused, who is the manager of Maisabulu
Bureau de Change, Kano, had sometime in April, 2013 upon the instruction of his
employer, Alhaji Kabiru Maisabulu, the managing director of Maisabulu Bureau de
Change purchased the sum of 50,000 United States dollars from the Central Bank
of Nigeria on behalf of one Bello Sani Yakassai of Misau Bureau de Change but,
converted the said sum for his personal use.
The count reads: " That you Abubakar Abdullahi
being the manager of Maisabulu Bureau de Change sometime in April 2013 in Kano
within the judicial division of the High Court of Justice of Kano being
entrusted with certain property to wit: the sum of $50,000.00 equivalent to the
sum of N7,780,000.00 given to you by Ahaji Kabiru Maisabulu for onward transmission
to Bello Sani Yakassai committed criminal breach of trust in respect thereof
and that you thereby committed an offence punishable under section 314 of the
Penal Code"
The accused pleaded not guilty when the charge was
read to him.
Based on his plea, Justice Aboki ordered that the
accused be remanded in EFCC custody pending the hearing of the bail application
and adjourned the matter to November 4, 2014.
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