The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission EFCC, on Thursday November 6, 2014, arraigned the duo of Alhaji
Suraj A.S Mai Bargo and Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu alongside S.A.S General
Enterprises Nigeria Limited before Justice Faruk Lawal of Kano State High Court
on a 2-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence.
The first accused, Mai Bargo, who is
an agent to the second accused, Iliyasu Hudu sometime in May 2012, allegedly
sold a plot of land to one Umar Ahmed Gwale at Gaida Farm in kano for the sum
of one million naira only (N1, 000,000) and issued a receipt of S.A.S General
Enterprises Nigeria Limited, with a promise to deliver the Certificate of
Occupancy to him within two weeks. The two weeks lapsed and the document was
never delivered to Gwale. Instead, he was told that the land belongs to one
Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu (2nd accused) who claimed that he never authorized
Mai Bargo to sell the land.
Count two of the charge reads “That
you Alhaji Suraj Mai Bargo, Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu and S.A.S General
Enterprises Nigeria Limited on or about 28th May, 2012 in kano
within the judicial division of the High Court of Justice of keno state, with
intent to defraud cheated Umar Ahmed Gwale by deceiving him to part with the
sum of one million naira only (N1,000,000) under the pretence that you had a
land with good title which you knew to be false and thereby committed an
offence contrary to section 320 and punishable under section 322 of the Penal
Code.”
The accused persons pleaded not
guilty to the charges and were granted bail by Justice Lawan in the sum
of N1m each and one reliable surety who must be a civil servant of level 14 and
above.
The case was adjourned to case to December
16, 2014 for commencement of trial.
EFCC Arraigns Two for N1m Land Scam
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