EFCC to arraign ex-gov of Kebbi State over N450m fraud allegation

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is set to arraign the 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, on December 6, 2018.
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.
The governor and his co-defendant’s arraignment suffered series of adjournment due to their persistent absence.
Justice Simone Amobeda, on the last adjourned date gave the absentee, defendants the 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”.