Justice Muhammad Maina of the Borno State High Court,
Maiduguri on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Ahmed Saleh
Mubi to one-year imprisonment for criminal misappropriation.
Mubi was arraigned on Thursday, September
19, 2024, by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on a one-count bordering on
criminal misappropriation to the tune of N19,691, 200.00 (Nineteen
Million, Six Hundred and Ninety One Thousand, Two Hundred Naira).
The lone count reads: “That you Ahmed Saleh
Mubi, between December, 2019 to March 2020 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the
jurisdiction of this Honourable court offered to sell CFA 45,200.00 to one
Abdulkarim Mohammed Saleh, at the cost of N20,975,200.00 and you collected 14
Motorcycles valued at N324,000.00 from the said Abdulkarim Mohammed Saleh for
you to sell and remit the proceed to him, did dishonestly misappropriated the
sum of N19,691, 200.00 (Nineteen Million, Six Hundred and Ninety-One Thousand,
Two Hundred Naira), only 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 not guilty to the charge when it
was read to him, prompting the stage for trial. In the course of
the trial, counsel to the prosecution, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed and
Faruku Muhammad presented three witnesses and tendered several exhibits.
Delivering judgment, Justice Maina
convicted and sentenced Mubi to one year imprisonment or an option
of fine of N100,000( One Hundred Thousand Naira only)
The convict's road to the Correctional Centre
began when he collected the sum of N19,691,200.00 from Abdulkarim Mohammed
Saleh to exchange it for CFA 45,200.00 and collected 14 motorcycles valued at
N324,000.00. He neither returned the money nor the motorcycles he collected
from his victim.
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