Former Kaduna Governor Yero And 3 Others Remanded In Prison Custody

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kaduna office, today May 31,2018 arraigned the former Executive Governor of Kaduna state Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, former minister of state, Nuhu Somo wya, former people's Democratic party, PDP, Kaduna state chairman, Abubakar Haruna Gay and the former secretary to the state Government, Hamza Ishaq. They were arraigned before justice S.M Shuaibu of the Federal High Court charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, Bribery, Money Laundering and criminal Diversion of Funds to the tune of N7000,000,000(seven Hundred Million Naira) only.
 They all pleaded not guilty to the charges.
 Lead prosecution counsel, Joshua saidi then prayed the court for a date for commencement of trial, while remanding the accused persons in prison custody.
 Lead defence counsel, Yunus Listaz Usman (SAN) made application for bail orally but Justice Shuaibu refused. The court ruled that formal application for bail of the accused must be filed. He therefore adjourned the matter to the 6th of June, 2018 for hearing of bail application. He also ruled that the accused be remanded in prison custody.
 The arraignment followed a petition alleging criminal diversion of One Hundred and Fifteen Million Dollars equivalent the twenty Three Billion, Two Hundred and Ninety Nine Million, Seven Hundred and five Thousand Naira (23,299,705,000.00) NNPC missing funds some years ago by the former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs.Diezani Alison Madueke. The missing sum was later traced to have funded the bribing of officials across the 36 State of the federation for the 2015 presidential election through Fidelity Bank Investigations into the case has so far revealed that the over Twenty Billion Naira was wired to some top PDP and INEC officials across the country which was specifically disbursed through various branches of the Fidelity Bank with Kaduna state benefitting over N800 million (Eight Hundred Million Naira) only o two Instalments of N700,000,000 and N190,000,000.
 The sum was received and acknowledged by Nuhu Somo Waya, Abubakar Gaya Haruna and Hamza Ishaq on behalf of the state for onward sharing to INEC staff spread across the 23 LGA in Kaduna state.
 Count on of the charge reads:
"That you,Mukhtar Ramalan Hero (whilst being the Executive Governor of Kaduna state), Nuhu Somo Wya(whilst being a former Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria), Ishaq Hamza(whilst being the chairman PDP Kaduna state chapter), sometime in 2015 in Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court (Federal High Court) did conspire amongst yourselves to commit a crime to wit, indirectly taking possession of the N700,000,000(seven hundred million Naira) which you ought to have known forms part of unlawful activity to wit: bribery and thereby committed am offence contrary to section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (prohibition) Act 2011(as amended) in 2011 and punishable under section 15(a) of the same Act.


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