Kolo Goni Ngwari was charged before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno
State High Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission's Maiduguri
Zonal Command.
Ngwari was charged with two different one-count counts of acquiring money
by deception totaling four million three hundred and fifty thousand naira (N4,
350, 000.00).
He was detained after a petition claimed he received the money under the
guise of having a 2500sq parcel of property for sale at No 176 BOTP/61 on
Pompomari Commercial Light Industrial Layout, Konduga Local Government, Borno
State.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Kolo Goni Ngwari sometime in February
2019 at Maiduguri, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with
intent to defraud did obtain N 1, 600,000.00 ( One Million Six Hundred Thousand
Naira) from Simion Ocheje’ Ojeewe Terry Obukuta and Egbeh Charles under the
pretense that the said amount represent payment for the purchase of a purported
plot of land No. 176 BOTP/61 on Pompomari Commercial Light Industrial Layout of
about 2500sq laying and situated at Konduga Local Government Area, Borno State
which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section
1(1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and
punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act”.
The defendant pleaded ‘not guilty’ when the charges were read to him.
In view of his plea, prosecution counsel, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed, prayed the
court to fix a date for trial and remand the defendant.
But counsel for the defendant, A. A Sani asked the court to admit his
client to bail pending the determination of the case.
Justice Kumaliya granted the defendant bail in the sum of N2million with
two sureties in like sum.
The sureties must be residents in Maiduguri and depose to an affidavit of
means.
Justice Kumaliya adjourned the matters till February 22, 2022, for commencement of trial.
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