Fake NNPC director fails to deliver petroleum products, arraigned on N147m fraud

The Kaduna Zone of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned one Ibrahim Shuaibu before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, for fraud.

According to a statement on EFCC X handle on Monday, Shuaibu is facing prosecution on seven counts bordering on criminal breach of trust, impersonation, and obtaining by false pretences N100 million.

Shuaibu’s journey to prosecution began in 2017 when he falsely represented himself as a Group Executive Director of NNPC, offering to help his victim acquire over 2,000 litres of petroleum products.

The victim subsequently transferred the agreed payment to Shuaibu’s bank accounts in instalments.

After receiving the funds, Shuaibu neither delivered the products nor refunded the money.

Count one of his charges reads, “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a Ishaku Abdulrazak) (M) and lIya Garba (now deceased) sometime in 2017 in Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court did conspire between yourselves to do an illegal act, to wit: obtaining money under false pretences 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.”

Another reads, “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a Ishaku Abdulrazak)(M) sometime in 2018 at Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of N47,050,000.00 (Forty-Seven Million and Fifty Thousand Naira) from one Faisal Safiyanu, when you claimed to supply him petroleum products, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

He pleaded not guilty to all the charges, prompting the prosecution counsel, M. Lawal to urge the court to fix a trial date.

The suspect’s counsel, AbdulKareem Audu failed to file a bail application.

Justice Khobo afterwards ordered the defendant to be remanded in the custody of the EFCC.