The Chief Magistrate Court Number eight in Bauchi State presided over by Chief Magistrate Haruna Abdulmumin Mamman has remanded a man called Shirhabil Abubakar in correctional facility for defrauding 20 serving Policemen the sum of N4,083,850k.
Bauchi State Police Command arraigned the suspect before the court in a suit number CMCBH/14642/22 which is between the Commissioner of Police and Shirhabil.
Police Prosecutor Inspector Yusuf Usman told the court that “Shirhabil hailed from Soro Village in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of the state, went to the Police Divisional Headquarters in Ningi, Ningi Local Government Area, impersonated and paraded himself as a Staff and Payroll Officer of Links and Mutual Microfinance Bank, with the purpose to fraudulently an instance loan policy. 20 service police officers attached to the division applied and requested various amounts with all necessary information given to Umar M Nasir attached to the bank now at large, who supposedly processed and disbursed over payment into the various bank accounts of the personnel.”
The Prosecutor said “after he disbursed over payment, he now called the officers and told them that it was a system error. And asked them to pay to the following individuals account the over payment. He told them that the owners of the accounts are their payroll officers, 6322525482 Godney Eka Danjuma, Fidelity Bank; 5749948810, Mohammed Lukman Ahmed, FCMB; 3134743209, Abdullahi Suleiman, First Bank; 0240744854, Shurahbil Abubakar WEMA Bank; 0156845833, Abdullahi Mohammed, Faisal Umar, UBA; 1022421270, Najib Isah Abubakar, UBA; 0056279310, Adamu Aminu, Access Bank; 2066234955, Samaila Bala, UBA.”
The Prosecutor gave the names of the police officers with various amounts of loan over payment defrauded under false pretense to have been mistakenly disbursed as a result of system error as follows: Elisha Simon- N333,000, Ahmed Hassan- N370,000, Shehu Baba -N229,000, Abubakar Ibrahim- N285,000, Shuaibu Mohammed- N194,000, Mohammed Musa- N187,000, Abdullahi Mohammed N227,000,Mona James N195,000, Halilu Mohammed, N206,000 , Mohammed Zangi- N70,000, Yusuf Abdullahi- N59,000, Dahiru Abubakar- N137,000, Nuhu Maaruf- N276,250, Abubakar Bello- N92,000, Yakubu Victor- N83,000, Garba Isah- N409,000, Alex Ali- N212,000, Ayuba Samson- N153,000, Nasiru Inuwa -N269,600 and Yahaya Abdullahi- N95,000 and the total amount of money defrauded is N4,083,850k.
He said the offence is contrary to section 27(C)(1)(2)(3)(4), (b)(5),20,22,13, of the cyber-crime prohibition, prevention CTC Act, 2015 and 1(a)(b)(2) of the advance fee fraud and other forms of related offences, 2006 of the FRN.
When the case was mentioned, the Presiding Magisterate, Mamman asked the accused if he understood the case against him which he answered in the affirmative,
The prosecutor asked for time to seek for legal advice which was agreed. The Magistrate ordered the accuse to be remanded in correctional service facility.
