The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 arraigned one Bello Rabah before Justice M.T.M Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna for obtaining money by false pretence.
Trouble started for Bello, when one Bashir Bala alleged that on 21st November, 2018, he bought two plots of land located at Access Road, Sabon Gida, Danbushia, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State in the sum of Four Million, Two Hundred Thousand Naira ( N4,200,000.00) from the defendant but later discovered that the land does not belong to him. He subsequently asked for a refund but the defendant offered to give him another land which, again, did not belong to him.
One of the counts reads: ” That you, Alhaji Bello Rabah, male, on or about the 18th of September, 2018, in Kaduna, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud did obtain the sum of N4,200,000.00(Four Million, Two Hundred Thousand Naira) only from one Captain Bashir Bala for Sale of two plots of land situated at Access Road, Gida Danbushia, Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna purportedly owned by you, a pretence you knew to be false, and you 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” .
The suspects pleaded not guilty to the charge. Upon his plea, the prosecution counsel, Y. J Matiyak urged the court to fix a date for trial and to remand the defendant in the Nigerian Correctional Centre pending his trial. But the defence counsel, Abubakar Abdulkadir prayed the court to grant the defendant bail.
Justice Aliyu adjourned the case till December 13, 2021 for the hearing of bail application and remanded the defendant in the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kaduna.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
8 December, 2021
