A federal court has ordered a former
Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido,
and his two sons, Aminu and
Mustapha, accused of fraud,
remanded in prison custody in Kano
till September 28.


The former governor was arraigned
on Thursday alongside his children
for receiving N1.35 billion kickback
from a government contractor.
The money was allegedly paid into
accounts controlled by the governor
and his sons.


The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission is accusing the four
suspects of money laundering,
amongst other charges.
They were due for arraignment
Wednesday, but the court appearance
was rescheduled to Thursday (today)
.
Security was stepped up around the
court vicinity in Kano ahead of the
hearing Thursday.


Delivering a ruling, Justice Evelyn
Anyadike ordered that the four
accused persons be remanded in a
Kano Prison Custody because the
EFCC said they lacked enough
facilities to accommodate them.
She rejected the pleas of defence
counsel, Effiong Effiong, SAN, that the
accused be kept at EFCC custody,
saying the commission had
complained of inadequate facilities.
Twenty eight-count charge bordering
on a number of alleged breach of
trust by Sule Lamido, Aminu Sule
Lamido, Mustapha Sule Lamido and
one Aminu Wada Abubakar, was read
in court.


They pleaded not guilty after the
charges were read to them.
The case involved N1.351 billion.
The judge ruled that the accused
persons be remanded pending the
hearing of their bail applications.
Earlier, the defence counsel, Mr.
Effiong, had argued that remanding
the accused persons in prison would
amount to trampling on their
fundamental human rights.


He pleaded they be sent to either of
EFCC facilities in Abuja or Kano.
However, the counsel to the EFCC,
Chile Okoroma, objected to the plea,
saying EFCC facilities were full to
capacity both in Kano and Abuja.
The case was adjourned to
September 28 for ruling on bail
applications.


There was pandemonium in court
between those supporting Mr.
Lamido and those against him,
leading the police to fire teargas
canisters into the air to disperse the
crowd.


Mr. Lamido, his sons and Mr.
Abubakar are accused of using their
positions to siphon Jigawa State
funds.


PREMIUM TIMES had in 2014
reported how a construction firm,
Dantata and Sawoe, paid N1.3 billion
as 10 percent kickback for contracts
it won, into accounts owned by the
governor and his sons.


It also showed how, between 2007,
when Mr. Lamido assumed office,
and 2014, Dantata and Sawoe
Construction Company was awarded
contracts amounting to N13.5 billion.
The state government made
payments for the contracts to the
construction firm through five banks
– Zenith, Access, Diamond, Sterling
and UBA.
Within the same period, according to
a probe of the transactions by the
EFCC, Dantata and Sawoe paid out
over N1.3 billion into the accounts of
companies in which the governor and
his sons had interest.

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/186367-alleged-n1-35bn-fraud-court-sends-ex-gov-sule-lamido-sons-to-prison.html

no

yes

He should be tranferred to Ekwulobia prison in anambra in exchange of those boko haram prisoners.

Don't be surprise when you see sule lamido sipping kunu in his home town this evening.

In the ZOO everything is possible.

I saw this coming

Ope o.. ..i hope more follows.

like father like son, what a disgrace to their lineage, still they are being celebrated...

I just love this..
Set of thieves.

To those Politicians embezzling our Money, I'll advice you to Invest it in Building Nice Prisons because that's where You'll all end up

1.35 billion... wow... you need to get to

1 million

and then

10 million

And then

50 million

and then

100 million

and the 1 million starts again

101 million

till till

999 million

The same way notorious Nigerians now dey fear carry drugs to malaysia, can they like create a death sentence law for politicians and their family that embezzle Nigerian money. .. maybe the corruption would reduce...

but then again who am I kidding... that law would never be passed as na the same people wey dey pass law dey break am first...

dhardline:
Ope o.. ..i hope more follows.

Yinmu.

Na Bode George type of prison them go go.

This thing nor be play play thing oh

Tasting the other side of life will equalise this equation..

Buhari 1
PDP 0
Into the first 5 mins of the match. More thieves to go to prison.

Am happy now

Amechi you are next.......

What of El Rufai's bastard?

see hin bobby

Hope they won't occupy the vip section of the prison... They need to be locked up in soldiers prison where they will have to maintain same position till anytime they needed in the court again... That will surely teach others great lesson

LET THE CHANGE BEGIN...

The case was adjourned to
September 28 for ruling on bail
applications.

I Gbadunn this judge...

Dorrobucci:
He should be tranferred to Ekwulobia prison in anambra in exchange of those boko haram prisoners.

Don't be surprise when you see sule lamido sipping kunu in his home town this evening.

In the ZOO everything is possible.

True talk bros.

Joke country,, it's all lies

Good Riddance

Wow! I think this is my first time of reading that an ex-governor has been remanded in prison, and with his sons too. Nigeria must be better by God's grace


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@The Lamidos

thank God for baba. EFCC has finally woken up.

kennygee:


Yinmu.

Na Bode George type of prison them go go.

Serious?? Thats bad.I wish they make them refund all the money they stole then sell their properties and add hard labour to their punishment.

Let the CHANGE begin...

Some PDPians who are bereft of ideas would soon invade here and start claiming witch-hunt!

I just pictured what fagggss in prison will do to him and his sons..
It'll be a fuckkiinngg orgggy..
Damn!!!!
Nice one