EFCC Press Release
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.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
7th November, 2014
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