The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday failed to
arraign a former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, and two
of his sons, Mustapha and Aminu, at a Federal High Court in Kano over
alleged money laundering.
The EFCC was expected to arraign Lamido and his two sons in court
on Wednesday but did not produce the accused in court despite having
filed the charges against the suspects in Kano on Tuesday.
The prosecutor, Mr. Simeon Akpah, attributed the inability of the
anti-graft agency to arraign the suspects to flight problem from Abuja.
The trio are to be arraigned in court on a 24 counts of alleged mismanagement of about N1.3bn and abuse of office.
Lamido was alleged to have awarded contracts, valued at N1.3bn, to some companies, believed to be owned by his children.
It was learnt that the suspects would also be arraigned for alleged money laundering offences.
Aminu was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
in 2013 for under declaring the amount of foreign currency on him while
on his way to Egypt
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