Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court,
Maiduguri on Monday, January 27, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Babagana
Kansulum to six months imprisonment for criminal misappropriation.
Kansulum was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal
Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on a one
-count charge for the offence of criminal misappropriation to the tune of
N2,650,000.00 (Two Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira).
The count reads: “That you Babagana Kamsulum, with
national identification number 5763879198 sometime in 2020, in Maiduguri,
within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court dishonestly converted to your
own use the sum of N2,650,000.00 monies purportedly meant to finance contract
for the renovation of office at Government House Damaturu which you knew to be
false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 and punishable
under Section 309 of the Penal Code Laws of Borno State Cap.102 Vol.3 of 1994
respectively.”
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge when it was
read to him
Counsel for the prosecution, Faruk Muhammad prayed the
court to convict and sentence the defendant accordingly, while defence counsel
A. A Yaro urged the court to temper justice with mercy.
Justice Kumaliya thereafter convicted and sentenced
Kamsulum to six months imprisonment with an option of N200, 000.00 (Two
Hundred Thousand Naira) fine
The convict's road to the Correctional Centre
began when he collected the sum of N2, 650,000.00 from Nafiu Mohammed Ibrahim
for a purported contract to renovate an office in Damaturu Government House. He
neither returned the money to the victim nor carried out the renovation.
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