Atiku Mu’azu Bayum, Mohammed Adi, Ibrahim Abubakar and Abubakar Usman on two charges bordering on conspiracy and theft before Justice Beatrice Iliya of High Court 3, Gombe State.
Investigation revealed some documents includes several receipts attached to payment vouchers for which payments were released and converted to their personal use in the cause of their duties. Count two read, “That you Atiku Mu’azu Bayum, Mohammed Adi, Ibrahim Abubakar and Abubakar Usman sometimes between January and July 2015 at Gombe, Gombe State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent did dishonestly commit theft to wit: fraudulently convert the sum of Twenty Five Million, Sixty Thousand Naira property of Gombe State Government and thereby committed an offence contrary to and Punishable under Section 286 and 287 of the Penal Code Law, Laws of Northern Nigeria.
The Defence counsel, L. A Haruna on his part pleaded on behalf of his clients for the court to temper justice with mercy as the convicts were first-time offenders and didn’t waste the precious time of the court as they pleaded guilty on the day of their arraignment and that they had made some restitution and intended to fully restitute the whole amount.
All the loot they (govt)have been collecting no account for them
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