- Three Others Arraigned For Currency Counterfeiting In Yobe
Ayuba Sanusi
JUSTICE Musa Mustapha of a Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri earlier today (Thursday, 8 June 2023) sentenced Adamu Abdullahi to three years imprisonment following his connection on a one-count charge of criminal breach of trust.
Upon arraignment on 14 June 2022, Adamu Abdullahi had pleaded not guilty to the charge and the case went into trial with the prosecution calling two witnesses and tendering several documents in evidence.
Justice Mustapha in his judgment today, convicted and sentenced Abdullahi to three years imprisonment or a fine of N30,000. The judge further ordered the convict to pay the sum of Two Million Four Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira (N2,440,000.00) in restitution to his victim or go to jail for further five years.
In a related development, the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC today arraigned the trio of Shamsuddeen Abubakar, Usman Warima Duna and Isma’il Abdullahi before Justice Fatimatu Adamu Aliyu of a Federal High Court, Damaturu on a two count charge of obtaining money by false pretence and currency counterfeiting involving 18 pieces of old N1000 (eighteen pieces of old one thousand naira) notes. 
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them.
Counsel for the prosecution, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed asked for a trial date and the remand of the defendants.
Justice Aliyu ordered the remand of the defendants in a correctional facility and adjourned till 19 July 2023.
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