EFCC busts, arraigns fake NNPC Ltd. Executive Director in Kaduna

The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned one Ibrahim Shuaibu before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna for fraud and impersonating NNPC Ltd. Executive Director.

According to a statement on EFCC official X handle on Monday, Shuaibu is facing a seven-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, impersonation, and obtaining by false pretences, amounting to N100 million.

Count one of the charges reads: “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a Ishaku Abdulrazak) (M) and lIya Garba (now deceased) sometime in 2017 in Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court did conspire between yourselves to do an illegal act, to wit: obtaining money under false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

Another charge states: “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a Ishaku Abdulrazak) (M) sometime in 2018 at Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of N47,050,000.00 (Forty-Seven Million and Fifty Thousand Naira) from one Faisal Safiyanu, when you claimed to supply him petroleum products, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

He pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges when they were read to him, prompting the prosecution counsel, Mr. M. Lawal to ask the court to fix a trial date.

Counsel to the defendant, Mr. AbdulKareem Audu, however, did not file application for his bail.

Justice Khobo then ordered the defendant to be remanded in the custody of the EFCC.

Shuaibu’s prosecution began in 2017 when he falsely represented himself as the Group Executive Director of NNPC Ltd, offering to help his victim acquire over 2,000 litres of petroleum products.

The victim subsequently transferred the agreed payment to Shuaibu’s bank accounts in instalments.

However, after receiving the funds, Shuaibu neither delivered the products nor refunded the victim’s money.