NECO boss lands in trouble for “defrauding school of N4m” in Maiduguri
An assistant director with the National Examination Council (NECO), Muhammadu Umar, is facing a 3-count charge of fraud to the tune of N4m.
Umar was said to have approached the proprietor of Success Private School, Maiduguri, with the claims that he had the permission of the examination body to collect SSCE registration fees of students in the school.
The proprietor obliged Umar with the fear that candidates from the school would not be allowed to partake in the examinations.
Umar then allegedly received a sum of N3.7m from the proprietor.
Umar says he is not guilty when he was arraigned before a Federal High Court in Maiduguri on Tuesday, but the judge ordered that he should be remanded in prison until hearing of his bail applications on Thursday.
