The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC, on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, arraigned one Muhammad Abdullahi Kulloma and Mbuta Criterion Nigerian Limited before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on a two count charge of obtaining Nineteen Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N19, 950,000) by false pretence.
The defendant fraudulently collected the sum from one Abdulwahad Abba Aji as payment for contract awarded the second defendant to supply water pumps to Norwegian Refugee Council, a Non-Governmental Organisation.
Kulloma sometime in August, 2020 in Maiduguri Borno State was alleged to have fraudulently induced one Abdulwahad Abba Aji to deliver to him the sum of Nineteen Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N19,950,000) only via his Mbuta Criterion Nig. Ltd Company account domicile in GTBank Plc under false pretence of executing a contract for the supply of water pumps awarded by Norwegian Refugee Council, a Non-Governmental Organisation which fact he knew to be false, thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 1(1) (b) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
