- Safiu Kehinde
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Abdullahi Aminu to court over alleged diversion for personal use N4.3 million rice supply payment made to him.
Aminu was on Thursday arraigned before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri by the EFCC’s Zonal Directorate at the capital city.
This was made known in a statement issued on the commission’s official X handle on Friday.
According to the statement, the defendant was arraigned on a one- count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N4, 305,000.00.
The charge reads: “That you, Abdullahi Aminu sometimes in 2025 at Maiduguri, Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly convert to your own use the aggregate sum of N4,305,000.00 (Four Million, Three Hundred and Five Thousand Naira), monies belonging to Jibrin Abdulrahman purportedly as payment for the supply of rice, thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 296 and punishable under Section 297 of the Borno State Penal Code Law and Other Matters Connected Therewith Law, 2023.”
Aminu however pleaded “not guilty” to the charge preferred against him by the EFCC.
Following his plea, prosecution counsel A.D Abdulmalik prayed for a trial date and urged the court to remand the defendant in a Correctional facility.
Thereafter, Justice Kumaliya adjourned till April 21, 2026 for commencement of trial and remanded the defendant in Maiduguri Maximum Correctional facility.
He was arrested when he allegedly converted to his own use the meant for the supply of rice.