Its Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Umar, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja, however said that the term ‘condemned criminal’ had been abrogated.
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The Service Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Umar, confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Director, DSS, in the state, Alhassan Muhammad, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Friday in Kano, adding that the criminals had been terrorising the people of the state for the past three years.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Suswam and a former Commissioner for Finance in his administration, Omadachi Oklobia, are being prosecuted for alleged N3.1 billion money laundering charge.
As the second segment of the two weeks lockdown of some states and the FCT expires, it is not evident what other measures the Federal Government of Nigeria and some of those states will adopt to control and stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s star witness on Monday said he received several telephone calls from different people asking him to change the statement he made with the anti-graft agency against Gabriel Suswam, former Governor of Benue State.
Abubakar Umar, an Abuja-based Bureau De Change Operator, told Justice Okon Abang at the Federal High Court, Abuja that the money was transferred through a company, Elixir Investment, in bits into his company, Fanffash Resources, with account domiciled at Zenith Bank.
The Chief Magistrate, Nuraddeen Bello, who gave the order, adjourned the case until November 15, for mention.
When the matter was called, the lead prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), told the court that the matter was for continuation of trial, but that although the witness was in court, he had malaria.
Abubakar Umar put Wikki Tourist ahead in the three minutes of the game before Sikiru Alimi put Sunshine Stars back on level in the 16th minute.
At the resumed trial, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), the lead prosecuting counsel, told the Federal High Court, Abuja that the fourth prosecution witness, Abubakar Umar, said he was coerced by Suswam’s team.
If the reports in the media are true, the matter goes beyond the victimisation of one organ of government by another. It is a possibility that members of the National Assembly might be on a mission to crash the federal governments’ war against corruption using the power of ‘oversight’ as cover. Two recent incidents would serve to illustrate the danger.
The remarkable tendency of Nigerian public officials to mismanage public enterprises which creates all sorts of system malfunctions and failures. These could be seen in the dismal failure to maintain the refineries, oil pipelines, storage facilities, distribution system and subsidy regimes
Renowned critic, retired Colonel Abubakar D. Umar, has faulted the trial judge in the alleged money laundering case involving a…
In a situation where states’ legislatures have reduced themselves to all but an arm of the executive, it is unrealistic to expect them to check and stop this fraud