Alleged N66m Fraud: EFCC Docks Borno Woman

By JUMOKE SANNI

The Economic and  Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri Zonal Office, on Thursday, July

23, 2020, dragged one Dije Sale before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri,  on three-count charges  of criminal conspiracy and

obtaining money by false pretense to the tune of N 66million (Sixty-six MillionNaira).

 

The fund, meant  for the purchase and supply of foodstuffs to FHI 360, a Non-Governmental Organisation,

was allegedly diverted by the defendant after the contract for the supply was awarded to her firm, Amisa General Merchandise.

 

The offence runs 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.

 

One of thecharges read: “That you Dije Sale,  being  a managing director  and alter ego of Amisa General Merchandise,  a company, registered  in Nigeria, sometime  in 2019 at Maiduguri, within  the jurisdiction of this honourable court,  with intent to defraud,  obtained the gross sum of N66,000,000, (Sixty-six Million Naira) only, being  the value of: (1) two thousand  bags of beans; (2) two thousand bags of maize; (3) two gallons  of cooking oil, all belonging to Alhaji Rabiu  Haruna under the pretence  of executing a contract  of supply  of food items  to FHI  360, a Non-Governmental Organisation which you knew to be false.”

 

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges, upon which prosecution counsel, Mukhtar Ali

Ahmad asked the court for a trial date and for the defendant to be remanded in a Correctional Centre, pending the determination of the case.

 

However, counsel to the defendant, Obi Okonkwo informed the court of a pending bail application served

on the prosecution and the court, and urged the court to admit his client to  bail.

 

Justice Fadawu, however, turned down the  bail application  and ordered that the defendant be remanded

in a Correctional Centre.

 

He adjourned the matter till August 13, 2020 for hearing of the bail application and commencement of trial.