EFCC Arrests Council Boss for N17.5m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday,  May 10, 2016 arrested the outgoing Chairman, Kuje Local Government Area, Abuja, Tete Ishaku Shaban, for offences bordering on obtaining by false pretence and abuse of office to the tune of N17,500,000( 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, 500,000.00million 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.