Sule Yusuf Saulawa, a parmanent secretary formally attached to the office of the Deputy Governor of Katsina State was on Tuesday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before Justice Sanusi Tukur of the Katsina High Court on a one-count charge of Obtaining by False Pretense.
The offense according to the anti-graft agency is in contravention of section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
Saulawa allegedly obtained the sum of N2.5m while working in the office of the Deputy Governor of Katsina State from the complainant under the pretext that he would facilitate the award by the Deputy Governor’s office of a contract for the supply of fertilizers to all the Local Government areas in Katsina State.
The accused allegedly told the complainant that the money was for the purchase of bidding documents, but cut off all contact with the victim immediately after he obtained the money.
The EFCC told the court that one Kabiru Dan-Asali had disclosed in his statement that he was present when the complainant, Musa Baba gave one Nasiru who works for the complainant, the sum N2.5m on behalf of the accused person. The accused person also allegedly confirmed this in his voluntary statement to the EFCC.
The anti-graft agency charged the accused person thus;
“You Sule Yusuf Saulawa while being the permanent secretary with the office of the Deputy Governor, Katsina State, sometimes in 2015 in Katsina, within the Judicial Division of the High Court of Katsina State with intent to defraud falsely obtained from one Alhaji Musa Baba, the Chairman of Many Agro Allied and Chemical Company Nigeria Limited and Diamond Fertilizer Nigeria Limited the sum of N2,500,000 (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira Only) by falsely representing that the Office of the Deputy Governor of Katsina State would award him contract for the supply of fertilizers to all the Local Government areas in the state and asked him to purchase a bidding documents which would be given to him as soon as he writes a proposal offering best price to the State Government which he did, but which you knew all to be false and you thereby committed an offense contrary to section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act."
The accused however pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded in prison custody by Justice Tukur till January 6, 2017 when his trial would commence.
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