The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on December 6,
2018 arraign a former governor of Kebbi State, Usman Saidu Dakingari
before a Federal High Court, Birnin-Kebbi, on a 13-count charge of
conspiracy and money laundering. Dakingari will be arraigned along with
Sunday Dogonyaro and Garba Rabiu Kamba for allegedly conniving to
collect the sum of N450 million (Four Hundred and Fifty Million Naira)
only part of the $115 million (One Hundred and Fifteen Million Dollars)
allegedly “shared” by the a former Minister of Petroleum Resources,
Deizani Alison-Madueke for the purpose of influencing the 2015 general
election. Dakingari and his co-defendants arraignment suffered series of
adjournment due to their persistent absence. On the last adjourned
date, Justice Simone Amobeda gave the absentee defendants a last chance
to appear before the court and take their pleas otherwise, he would
“grant the prosecution’s prayers and invoke section 394 of the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 for the court to issue a
bench warrant for their arrest”. One of the charges reads that: "Usman
Saidu Dakingari on or about the 27th March 2015 at Kebbi within the
jurisdiction of the Federal High Court made a cash payment of the sum of
N49,640,000 (Forty Nine Million, Six Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira
Only) to Alhaji Haruna Haruna without transacting through a financial
institution and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 18 (a)
of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 (as amended) and
punishable under section 16 (2)(b) of the same Act”.EFCC to arraign Ex-Kebbi State Governor, UsmanDakingari over alleged N450m fraud on December 6
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on December 6,
2018 arraign a former governor of Kebbi State, Usman Saidu Dakingari
before a Federal High Court, Birnin-Kebbi, on a 13-count charge of
conspiracy and money laundering. Dakingari will be arraigned along with
Sunday Dogonyaro and Garba Rabiu Kamba for allegedly conniving to
collect the sum of N450 million (Four Hundred and Fifty Million Naira)
only part of the $115 million (One Hundred and Fifteen Million Dollars)
allegedly “shared” by the a former Minister of Petroleum Resources,
Deizani Alison-Madueke for the purpose of influencing the 2015 general
election. Dakingari and his co-defendants arraignment suffered series of
adjournment due to their persistent absence. On the last adjourned
date, Justice Simone Amobeda gave the absentee defendants a last chance
to appear before the court and take their pleas otherwise, he would
“grant the prosecution’s prayers and invoke section 394 of the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 for the court to issue a
bench warrant for their arrest”. One of the charges reads that: "Usman
Saidu Dakingari on or about the 27th March 2015 at Kebbi within the
jurisdiction of the Federal High Court made a cash payment of the sum of
N49,640,000 (Forty Nine Million, Six Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira
Only) to Alhaji Haruna Haruna without transacting through a financial
institution and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 18 (a)
of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 (as amended) and
punishable under section 16 (2)(b) of the same Act”.
