EFCC Docks Two Whistle Blowers Over False Information
The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission has arraigned Buhari Fannami and Ba-Kura Abdullahi on two
separate one count charge before Justice M. T Salihu of the Federal High Court
Maiduguri, for allegedly giving false information to the agency under the
whistle blowing policy.
Fannamit had misled the EFCC
with the information about illegally acquired monies purportedly buried at the
residence of one Ba’a Lawan but the information turned out to be false after
the execution of a search warrant.
The accused person pleaded
not guilty to the charge.
Counsel to the prosecution
Alkassim Ja’afar asked for a trial date and prayed the court to remand the
accused person in the prison custody pending trial.
On his part, Ba-Kura
Abdullahi also gave false information to the effect that large sum of money in
naira and foreign currencies were buried in the residence of Ba’a Lawan.
Justice Salihu adjourned the
matter to June 7 and 8, 2017 for hearing and ordered the accused persons to be
remanded in the prison custody.
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