Kaduna Councillor Arrested for N11m Fraud

 

 

By Patrick Asemota

 

Madami

 

The Kaduna Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a councillor representing Kakuri Hausa, Ward, Kaduna South Local Government of Kaduna State, Hon Theophilus Madami for offences bordering on alleged criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of funds to the tune of N8m.

The suspect, allegedly approached one, Ibrahim Ringim Haruna, Chief Executive Officer of Pyramid Supplied Services Limited, a distributor of pasta products, with claims that his council needed pasta products for distribution to its citizens.

Consequently, the company, sometime in November, 2018, supplied products worth N16, 080,000 to the suspect who paid a deposit of N5m, leaving a balance of N11.080,000.00.

After delivery of the goods, he diverted the proceeds his personal use and refused to pay the balance as agreed.