Five management staff of the Sokoto State Primary Staff Pension Board, who allegedly diverted over N500m, have been granted bail by the Sokoto State High Court.The officials are Abubakar Aliyu, Hassana Moyi, Haliru Ahmad, Kabiru Ahmad and Dahiru Muhammad Isa, who were Secretary, Director of Finance and Supply, deputy Director of Finance and Supply, Accountant and Cashier of the board, respectively.
The Presiding judge, Justice Muhammad Muhammad, granted them bail in the sum of N55m each with one surety in like sum who must be a resident of Sokoto and owned a landed property within the state. Earlier, counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Sa’ad Hannafi, had objected the bail application on the grounds that some of the defendants were flight risk.
Hannafi said, “The defendants had jumped the administrative bail granted to them during investigation. There are high risk of interfering with the prosecution witnesses as some of them were at the mercy of the defendants.”
They be thief for that sokoto o, am not surprised.
I love Sokoto Officials %45 of 500k not bad, since they invested 0.
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