Court Jails Businessman For N2m Contract Scam In Maiduguri

Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on Monday, January 27, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Babagana Kansulum to six months imprisonment for criminal misappropriation.

Kansulum was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on a one-count charge for the offence of criminal misappropriation to the tune of N2,650,000.00 (Two Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira).

The count reads: “That you Babagana Kamsulum, with national identification number 5763879198 sometime in 2020, in Maiduguri, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court dishonestly converted to your own use the sum of N2,650,000.00 monies purportedly meant to finance contract for the renovation of office at Government House Damaturu which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 and punishable under Section 309 of the Penal Code Laws of Borno State Cap.102 Vol.3 of 1994 respectively.”

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him

Counsel for the prosecution, Faruk Muhammad prayed the court to convict and sentence the defendant accordingly, while defence counsel A. A Yaro urged the court to temper justice with mercy.

Justice Kumaliya thereafter convicted and sentenced Kamsulum to six months imprisonment with an option of N200, 000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira) fine

The convict’s road to the Correctional Centre began when he collected the sum of N2, 650,000.00 from Nafiu Mohammed Ibrahim for a purported contract to renovate an office in Damaturu Government House. He neither returned the money to the victim nor carried out the renovation.

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