Justice Abubakar Talba of the FCT High Court, Gudu issued the order for the remand of the suspect and his accomplices who were alleged to have used their positions to demand and receive various sums of money amounting to N192 million under the pretence of securing land allocations for unsuspecting Nigerians.
Gital was charged along one Shuaibu Yakubu, Jibril Tahir and Jibmir Ventures Nigeria Limited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before the judge on a 10-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence, conspiracy and forgery.
The accused persons reportedly swindled unsuspecting land applicants of the huge amount, promising to use their positions to secure easy land allocations from the FCDA for them, a promise that turned out to be false.
However, when the charges were read to the suspects in court, they all pleaded not guilty and asked for speedy trial in the case.
One of the charges slammed on the suspects reads: “That you, Yau Mohammed Gital, being the Chief of Staff to the Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and member of the Land Allocation Committee, Federal Capital Territory Administration; Shuaibu Yakubu, being a former Special Assistant to the former Chief of Staff; Jibril M. Tahir, being the Managing Director of Jibmir Ventures Nigeria Limited and Jibmir Ventures Nigeria Limited sometimes between September 2012 and March 2014 in Abuja within the Jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, with intent to defraud, conspired to do an illegal act, to wit: obtain monies by false pretences from various unsuspecting persons under the false pretence that the said monies were for the processing/facilitation of land allocation by the Federal Capital Development Authority which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8 (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act.”
But counsel to the accused persons, Nura Imam, urged the court to admit them to bail while awaiting trial.
But disagreeing with them, Justice Bello ordered the accused remanded in prison custody and adjourned the case till July 2, 2015 for ruling on the bail application.
DMCA/Disclaimer Policy
www.igotell.com doesn’t host any content on it own server and just linking to or embedding content that was uploaded to popular Online Video/Music hosting sites like dailymotion.com, Youtube.com, Saavn, Gaana, pagalworld and such sites. All Songs, trademarks, Videos, trade names, service marks, copyrighted work, logos referenced herein belong to their respective owners/companies. www.igotell.com is not responsible for what other people upload to 3rd party sites. We urge all copyright owners, to recognize that the links contained within this site are located somewhere else on the web or video embedded are from other various site like included above!. If you have any legal issues please contact appropriate media file owners / hosters.
If you are the rightful owner of any contents posted here, and object to them being displayed or If you are one of representativities of copy rights department and you dont like our conditions of store, Please Contact Us We will remove it in 24 hour! bizigotell@gmail.com
0 comments:
Post a Comment