The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, July 3, 2025,
arraigned a couple, Aisha Musa and Farouk Anas before Justice A. Isyaka of the
Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna for land fraud
They were arraigned on two-count charges that border
on conspiracy, advance fee fraud and obtaining money by false
pretence to the tune of N10 million.
Count two of the charge reads: "That
you Aisha Musa Hamisu and Farouk Anas on or about the 17th of February, 2020 in
Kaduna, within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, with intent
to defraud, obtained the sum of N10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Naira Only) from
one Jamilu Buhari under the false pretence that, you bought and possessed the
farmland/property situated at Birni Yero along Kaduna-Zaria ExpressWay,
Kaduna State, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an
offence contrary to Section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other
Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same
Act."
They pleaded “not guilty” to the charges,
following which prosecution counsel M.O Arumemi asked the court for
trial date and for the defendants to be remanded
in the custody of the Nigeria Correctional Services, while the
defence counsel, Frank Akhareghemen, prayed the court to grant the defendants
bail.
Justice Isyaka after listening to both
counsels, adjourned the case till July 24, 2025 for ruling on the
bail application and ordered for the remand of
the couple in the custody of Nigeria Correctional Service.
The couple’s road to jail began with a petition
by one Aysha Ahmed & Co on behalf of Hajiya Adama Maina, alleging that
the defendants fraudulently claimed a property which the petitioner inherited
from her late husband and sold the same to one Jamilu Buhari
under the false pretence that they bought the property from the
petitioner’s stepson, only for the buyer to later discover that the
said stepson didn’t have anything to do with the defendants.
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