EFCC re-arraigns Ex-Niger Gov Aliyu over N2bn fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 16, 2017 re-arraigned a former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, alongside his Chief of Staff, Umar Nasko, before Justice Yalim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Minna on an eight-count charge of money laundering to the tune of N2billion.
The case was initially before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court before it was transferred to Niger.

Aliyu and Nasko were accused of laundering ecological funds released by the Federal Government to Niger State sometime in 2014.

Justice Bogoro admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N250m each with two sureties each in like sum. The sureties must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction and must be civil servants not below the rank of a director.
The case has been adjourned to January 21, 2018 for hearing.