EFCC arraigns fake aides of ex-First Lady Patience Jonathan in Maiduguri

The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned two fake aides of former First Lady, Patience Jonathan: Goni Muhammad and Seidu Seriki Haman before Justice Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri.

They were arraigned on Monday, May 16, 2022 on two-count charges bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N26,492,000.00 (Twenty Six Million, Four Hundred and Ninety Two Thousand Naira).

The defendants allegedly conspired and obtained the above-mentioned sum, under the guise of selling two grams of gold belonging to a former First Lady, Patience Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to a buyer.

Count two of the charge reads: “That you, Goni Mohammad and Seidu Seriki  Hamman sometimes in January, 2020 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, did obtain 2 grams of gold at the rate of N26.4 million allegedly belonging to the wife of the former President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan under the false pretence which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

The defendants, meanwhile, pleaded ‘not guilty’ when the two counts were read to them.