The EFCC Kaduna Zonal Office, today, Monday, November 27,
arrraigned one Abubakar Isiyaku before Justice Mohammed Yahaya of the
State High Court Kano on a one count charge bodering on Criminal Breach
of Trust and Obtaining by False Pretence.
Investigations into the case revealed that, the accused who
allegedly specialises in disguising as a female, fraudulently opened a
facebook account with profile name Hajia Fatima Mohmammed and through
this medium, continiously chat and eventually exchanged numbers with the
complainant.
Along the line they arranged to meet one on one, but being
that Abubakar was not a female as he protrayed all this while lied to
the complainant on the day they were to meet that his mum was
hospitalised in Lagos.
Having realised that he had earned the trust of the
complainant, he decided to furthered his plan by informing him that his
mum needs to be flown out for an emergency medical procedure in Saudi
Arabia and would need the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Naira as loan to
make arrrangemnts.
Surprisingly, after a while the accused called the
complainant with a purported Saudi line to intimate him about the
progress of treatment, and asked for an addittional Five Hundred
Thousand Naira to further off set the remaining medical bills.
The complainant again sent the amount.
The complainant again sent the amount.
Having fully mapped out his plan, he then informed the
complainant about their return to Nigeria and possibilty of refunding
the borrowed monies but met another hitch as his father was purportedly
arrested at the airport upon arrival by the EFCC, his accounts frozen
and needed money to bail his father which will all be paid back from the
sum of Two Billion Naira that was hidden somewhere in the father's
house.
The complainant in his statement revealed that a total of
One Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira was given to the accused so far
and after sometime his phone lines were no longer reachable and efforts
to retrieve all his money became futile.
The accused however pleaded not guilty to the charge and
prosecuting counsel, Sa'ad Hanafi Sa'ad urged the court to fix a date
for hearing while the defence counsel, Habib Shittu filed for the
accused's bail which the prosecuting counsel asked for time to
scrutinise and respond to.
The Judge subsequently ordered that the accused be remanded
in prison custody pending ruling on his bail application. The case is
adjourned to 18th and 19th of December, 2017 for ruling on bail
application and commencemnt of trial.
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