Kano bizman bags 7 years jail over N6.5m fraud

A Kano-based businessman, Jamilu Sule, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment with no option of fine following a petition written against him for obtaining property worth N7,677,000 under false pretense. Sule was arraigned by the Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of the Kano […]

A Kano-based businessman, Jamilu Sule, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment with no option of fine following a petition written against him for obtaining property worth N7,677,000 under false pretense.

Sule was arraigned by the Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of the Kano State High Court on a one- count charge of obtaining by false pretense.

Spokesperson of the command, Tony Orilade, said during his first trial in 2019, Sule was accused of collecting goods worth N7,677,000 on credit under the guise that he would supply them to supermarkets.

One of the charges reads in part: “That you Jamilu Sule, between July to August 2018 at Singer Market Kano, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, deceitfully obtained some provisions and food items worth N7,677,000 only being properties of Mohammed Shariff Ahmad, Ibrahim Dauda Abdullahi and Tajuddeen Abdulrahaman, committing cheating in respect of the said goods and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 322 of the same Law.”

Sule was first arraigned on May 21, 2019, and pleaded not guilty to the four counts brought against him by the EFCC.

During the trial, the prosecution counsel, Michael Ojo, called four witnesses and closed his case.