EFCC, on October 8, 2018 arraigned a serial fraudster recognized as Mohammed Sanni Zubair, before Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu of the Federal High Courtroom, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on a 4-count cost of fraud.
Zubair, a suspected serial fraudster, was alleged to be a member of a syndicate, who specialised in defrauding folks.
The lengthy arm of the regulation caught Zubair when the kids of 1 Major General Geoffrey Ejiga (retd) petitioned the EFCC alleging that a syndicate of fraudsters took benefit of their father’s outdated age to defraud him of over N180million.
A verify on Zubair’s profile confirmed that he had beforehand been arrested by the operatives of the EFCC someday in 2016 for a fraud associated offence, which he confessed to, saying he acted under the instruction of 1 Johnson Abiodun, whose actual name was Nuhu Kasim.
In the middle of investigation, Kasim was arrested in Kano, and it was found that the knowledge given by the defendant towards him, was utterly false. Therefore, this charge.
One of the counts reads:
“That you, Mohammed Sanni Zubair on or about October 2016, in Abuja, within the Abuja Judicial Division of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, did make a statement to Naziru Aminu Shehu, an officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in the course of the exercise of the duties of his office, contained in your written statement dated 28th October, 2016, which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 39 (2) (a) and (b) of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004”.
The defendant pleaded not responsible to the counts most well-liked towards him. In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, Fatsuma Mohammed, prayed the courtroom for a trial date to allow the prosecution show its case.
However, counsel to the defendant, Joe Agi, SAN, knowledgeable the courtroom of the defendant’s software for bail, which he mentioned was filed and served on the prosecution shortly earlier than the courtroom began sitting.