EFCC ARRAIGNS SIX KWARA SUBEB OFFICIALS FOR ALLEGED N96M FRAUD 04-03-25
By Sadiq Aminu. The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned six officials of Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB before Justice Suleiman Akanbi of the State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, over alleged 96 Million Naira fraud.
In a statement the EFCC Head of media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale said the accused persons are facing prosecution on a four-count charge of breach of trust and misappropriation.
The defendants are, Ahmed Husain Olarewaju, Director, Finance and Supply; Omole Omololu John, Controller, Finance and Accounts; Fatai Oyerinde, Coordinator, Salary Unit; Mujeeb Ibrahim, Executive Officer, Account and Salary Schedule; Salami Temitope Bashir and Dauda Aweda Quozim, who are staff of the Salary Unit in the Kwara SUBEB.
The defendants, in their various capacities, allegedly conspired between 2018 -2020 to convert public funds belonging to the Kwara State Government for their personal use and shared the proceeds among themselves.
In the charge sheet the defendants, Ahmed Husain Olarewaju, Omole Omololu, Fatai Oyerinde, Mujeeb Ibrahim and Bashir Temitope Salami, were alleged to have between September, 2018 and December, 2018 at Ilorin, being public officers in the service of the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (KWSUBEB) and in such capacity entrusted with a certain property to wit; the gross sum of N33.8million naira which sum formed part of the Kwara State SUBEB funds in account No: 0031236028 domiciled at Sterling Bank.
It said the defendants committed the offence of criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code,among other allegations.
All the defendants denied the allegations when the charges were read to them.
The prosecution counsel, Andrew Akoja, asked the court for a trial date and the defendants to be remanded in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Centre.
In his ruling Justice Akanbi, refused the oral bail application made by counsel to the defendants Abdullahi Lawal, adjourned the matter till Wednesday, April 16, 2025 for trial and ordered that the defendants be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ilorin.