Isyaku Ibrahim has been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Maiduguri Zonal Command, with one count of criminal misappropriation involving N12 million before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court.
This was revealed by the anti-corruption organisation in a statement posted on its verified Twitter account on Wednesday.
Ibrahim was accused of stealing property from a deceased man named Muhammad Ishiyaku and using it for his own benefit at the expense of the deceased man’s relatives.
The properties mentioned in the charge include three houses, two fenced lands, one of which has seven shops, two bread factories, one open land, two tanker trucks and one big installed generator, all valued at N12 million.
EFCC told the court that the “offence is contrary to and punishable under sections 308 and 309 of the Penal Code Law of Borno State (Cap. 102 Vol. 3 of 1994) respectively.”
However, the defendant pleaded “not guilty” to the charge.
Following a request by the prosecution counsel for the court to remand the defendant in prison custody until the next trial, Justice Fadawu remanded the defendant and adjourned till July 12 for the commencement of trial.