Court Jails Man For N12m Inheritance Fraud In Maiduguri
Ayuba Sanusi
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, 24 April 2024, secured the conviction and sentence of Isiyaku Ibrahim before Justice Umaru Fadawu of a Borno State High Court, Maiduguri.
He was arraigned on 3 July 2023 on a one-count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of Twelve Million Naira (N12,000,000.00) only which he converter to personal use, to the detriment of the family members of a deceased person.
The charge reads: “That you Isiyaku Ibrahim and Mallam Ibrahim sometime between 2014 to 2019 at Jajere Baga Road, Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, being entrusted with dominion over certain properties belonging to Muhammad Isiyaku (now deceased) to wit: (1) three houses, (2) two fenced lands one of which had seven shops, (3) two bread factories, (4) one open land, (5) two truck tankers and (6) one big installed generator, valued at Twelve Million Naira (N12,000,000.00) only and thereby criminally misappropriated the said amount to your personal use, to the detriment of the family members of the deceased and therefore committed an offence contrary to Section 308 of the Penal Code Cap 102 Laws of Borno State and Punishable under Section 309 of the same law.”
The defendant pleaded “not guilty” to the charge and the matter proceeded to trial, which prompted prosecution counsel, Faruqu Muhammad to present six witnesses and tendered several documents as exhibits before the court.
Justice Fadawu convicted and sentenced the defendant to one-year imprisonment with an option of a One Hundred Thousand Naira (N100,000.00) fine for the offence of criminal misappropriation.
Ibrahim bagged his imprisonment when he was arrested by operatives of the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC for misappropriating the properties of a deceased person entrusted to his care. The properties comprise three houses, two fenced lands one of which had seven shops, two bread factories, one open land, two truck tankers and one big installed generator, valued at Twelve Million Naira (N12,000,000.00). He was charged to court and convicted.
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