The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Paul Boroh, a former aide of President
Muhammadu Buhari and ex-director of the amnesty programme, over an alleged N975
million fraud.
He was arraigned alongside one
Hanafi Moriki. Both men are facing a nine-count charge bordering on criminal
breach of trust to the tune of N974,768,466 and $1,914,000.
The anti-graft organisation
accused the defendants of converting N8,601,571; N106,288,445; N12,078,450;
N382,800,000; N456,000,000; N9,000,000 and more, while being public officers.
“That you, Paul Boroh and Hanafi,
Moriki between the 1st of December 2016 and 30th July, 2017 at Abuja within the
Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst being public servants entrusted
with property to wit funds of the Office of the Special Adviser to the
President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme,
dishonestly converted the sum of One Million, Seven Hundred and Fourteen
Thousand United States Dollars to your own use and thereby committed an offense
contrary to and punishable under section 315 of the Penal Code Law,” one of the
counts read.
However, they pleaded “not
guilty” when the charges were read out to them in court on Thursday.
Thereafter, Mike Ozekhome,
counsel to Boroh, prayed the court to grant his client bail on “liberal terms.”
Ozekhome said his client
willingly brought himself to court despite his failing health.
Also, O.A Dada, counsel to
Moriki, asked the court to grant his client bail.
But Aisha Habib, counsel to EFCC,
opposed the bail application.
Habib informed the court that a
counter affidavit had been filed against the application and prayed the court
to grant the case accelerated hearing.
Ruling on the application, O. O.
Goodluck, the judge, granted a N2 million bail to Boroh and N20 million to
Moriki.
The judge also asked them to
provide two sureties resident in Abuja, not below the rank of assistant
director in the federal public service.
They were also ordered to deposit
their passports with the court registry. The case was adjourned till November
26, 27 and December 3, 4 for trial.
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