{"id":24173,"date":"2020-01-31T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24173"},"modified":"2020-01-31T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:42:05","slug":"ex-banker-wife-in-trouble-for-alleged-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24173","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Banker,\u00a0Wife in Trouble for Alleged\u00a0Fraud\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former staff of a new generation bank, Shehu Muhammad Aliyu, and his\u00a0wife,\u00a0 Ramatu Abdullahi are in trouble and in court before Justice Nasiru Saminu of the Kano State High Court for\u00a0conspiracy and\u00a0obtaining by\u00a0false\u00a0pretence.<br \/>\nAliyu was arraigned on a five-count charge,\u00a0while Ramatu was arraigned on\u00a0a\u00a0one-count charge.<br \/>\nThe first defendant, Aliyu,\u00a0an account officer in the bank, allegedly obtained loans through non-existent account holders,\u00a0which he created\u00a0by\u00a0himself,\u00a0 purporting same to be staff of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital,\u00a0AKTH,\u00a0Kano State, by presenting AKTH documents which turned out to\u00a0have been\u00a0forged.<br \/>\nInvestigation further revealed that\u00a0his\u00a0 wife&#8217;s account was used to deposit part of the loan sum.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24174\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24174\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image0-158x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Remadu Abdulahi<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCount one\u00a0reads:\u00a0\u201cThat you,\u00a0Shehu Muhammad Aliyu, Baba Abba Sambo (now at large), Ramatu Abdullahi and Hadiza Sani (now at large) sometime in 2013 or thereabout at Kano, Kano State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court and with the intent to defraud, conspired among yourselves to do an illegal act to wit; obtaining money by false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 8(a) and punishable under section 1(3) of advance fee fraud and other related offences Act 2006.\u201d<br \/>\nThey\u00a0pleaded\u00a0\u201cnot guilty\u201d\u00a0to the charges.<br \/>\nIn view of their plea,\u00a0counsel for the EFCC,\u00a0Zarami Mohammed, asked the court for a date for the commencement of trial.<br \/>\nCounsel for the defence, however,\u00a0prayed the court to hear their bail applications.<br \/>\nThereafter,\u00a0Justice Saminu granted the first defendant bail\u00a0in the sum of N1 million\u00a0with two reliable sureties in like sum.<br \/>\nThe judge held that: \u201cOne of the sureties shall be a close relative of the defendant and should have a landed property within the jurisdiction of the court covered by a Certificate of Occupancy.<br \/>\n\u201cThe other surety, who shall be a civil servant of not less than grade level 13, should deposit his passport photograph with the court registrar after proper inspection.<br \/>\n\u201cThe second defendant, Ramatu Abdullah shall continue to enjoy the bail granted by the same court in her earlier appearance.\u201d<br \/>\nThe court\u00a0further ordered that the\u00a0first defendant\u00a0should\u00a0be remanded in prison pending the fulfilment of his bail conditions.<br \/>\nThe matter has been adjourned to\u00a0March\u00a0 12, 2020 for hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former staff of a new generation bank, Shehu Muhammad Aliyu, and his\u00a0wife,\u00a0 Ramatu Abdullahi are in trouble and in court before Justice Nasiru Saminu of the Kano State High Court for\u00a0conspiracy and\u00a0obtaining by\u00a0false\u00a0pretence. Aliyu was arraigned on a five-count charge,\u00a0while Ramatu was arraigned on\u00a0a\u00a0one-count charge. The first defendant, Aliyu,\u00a0an account officer in the bank, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[898,354,899],"class_list":["post-24173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ex-banker","tag-fraud","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}