By Kunle Olasanmi Abuja
— Jun 30, 2015 5:39 am | 0 Comments
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) on Monday, June 29,
2015 arraigned Yau Mohammed Gital,
Shuaibu Yakubu, Jibiril M. Tahir and
Jibmir Ventures Nigeria Limited before
Justice Abubakar Talba of the FCT High
Court Gudu, Abuja, on a 10-count charge
bordering on obtaining money under false
pretences, conspiracy and forgery to the
tune of N192,000,000 (one hundred and
ninety-two million naira).
Gital, a former Chief of Staff to the FCT
minister and member of the Land
Allocation Committee, Federal Capital
Territory Administration (FCTA), allegedly
conspired with Shuaibu Yakubu, a former
special assistant to the Chief of Staff,
Jibril M. Tahir, the Managing Director,
Jibmir Ventures Nigeria Limited, to obtain
money from various unsuspecting persons
under the false pretence that the money
was for processing and facilitation of land
allocation by the Federal Capital
Development Authority.
Count one reads:
“That you, Yau Mohammed Gital, being
the Chief of Staff to the Honourable
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory
and member of the Land Allocation
Committee, Federal Capital Territory
Administration, Shuaibu Yakubu, being a
former Special Assistant to the former
Chief of Staff, Jibril M. Tahir, being the
Managing Director of Jibmir Ventures
Nigeria Limited and Jibmir Ventures
Nigeria Limited, sometimes between
September 2012 to March 2014 in Abuja,
within the Jurisdiction of the High court of
the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
, with intent to defraud, conspired to do
an illegal act, to wit: obtain monies by
false pretences from various unsuspecting
persons under the false pretence that the
said monies was for the processing/
facilitation of land allocation by the
Federal Capital Development Authority
which you knew to be false and thereby
committed an offence contrary to Section
8 (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other
Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and
punishable under Section 1 (3) of the
same Act.”
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