The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on December 6, 2018
arraign a former governor of Kebbi State, Usman Saidu Dakingari before a
Federal High Court, Birnin-Kebbi, on a 13-count charge of conspiracy and money
laundering.
Dakingari
will be arraigned along with Sunday Dogonyaro and Garba Rabiu Kamba for
allegedly conniving to collect the sum of N450 million (Four Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) only part of the $115
million (One Hundred and Fifteen Million
Dollars) allegedly “shared” by the a former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Deizani Alison-Madueke for the purpose of influencing the 2015
general election.
Dakingari
and his co-defendants arraignment suffered series of adjournment due to their
persistent absence.
On the
last adjourned date, Justice Simone Amobeda gave the absentee defendants a last
chance to appear before the court and take their pleas otherwise, he would
“grant the prosecution’s prayers and invoke section 394 of the Administration
of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 for the court to issue a bench warrant for their
arrest”.
One of
the charges reads that: "Usman Saidu Dakingari on or about the 27th March
2015 at Kebbi within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court made a cash
payment of the sum of N49,640,000 (Forty
Nine Million, Six Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira Only) to Alhaji Haruna
Haruna without transacting through a financial institution and thereby
committed an offence contrary to section 18 (a) of the Money Laundering
Prohibition Act, 2011 (as amended) and punishable under section 16 (2)(b)
of the same Act”.
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