The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned the trio of Nasiru Inuwa Illelah, Muhammad Adamu Gana and Adamu Yunus , the Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer respectively of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Services Technical and Recreation Services Employees, Hospital Management Board.
The unionists were arraigned before Justice Rabi T. Umar of the Bauchi State High Court, Bauchi on charges bordering on fraudulent conversation of the sum of N6 million and issuance of dud cheques.
The accused persons, sometime in January 2016, obtained 600 bags of rice valued at N6 million from the complainant with the promise that payment will be made over a two months period through direct deductions from staff of a local council that were touted as beneficiaries.
In soliciting his trust, the complainant was issued two post dated Sterling Bank cheques for February 5, 2016 and March 5, 2016, which were separately lodged and returned unpaid owing to insufficient fund in the account.
All efforts to get the accused persons to pay back the money were futile as they were eventually found to have diverted the goods elsewhere for their personal benefit.
All the defendants pleaded not guilty to the six count charge.
Justice Rabi adjoined the case to November 9, 2016 for hearing of bail applications and ordered the accused to be remanded in prison custody.
Crime Three unionists docked for N6m scam
