The two men Alhaji Suraj A.S Mai Bargo and Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu
were arraigned for land scam. Below is a statement released by EFCC;
“The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Thursday,
November 6, 2014, arraigned the duo of Alhaji Suraj A.S Mai Bargo and
Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu alongside S.A.S General Enterprises Nigeria
Limited before Justice Faruk Lawal of Kano State High Court on a 2-count
charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretense.
The first accused, Mai Bargo, who is an agent to the second accused,
Iliyasu Hudu sometime in May 2012, allegedly sold a plot of land to one
Umar Ahmed Gwale at Gaida Farm in kano for the sum of one million Naira
only (N1, 000,000) and issued a receipt of S.A.S General Enterprises
Nigeria Limited, with a promise to deliver the Certificate of Occupancy
to him within two weeks.
The two weeks lapsed and the document was never delivered to Gwale.
Instead, he was told that the land belongs to one Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu
Hudu (2nd accused) who claimed that he never authorized Mai Bargo to
sell the land.
Count two of the charge reads “That you Alhaji Suraj Mai Bargo, Alhaji
Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu and S.A.S General Enterprises Nigeria Limited on or
about 28th May, 2012 in kano within the judicial division of the High
Court of Justice of keno state, with intent to defraud cheated Umar
Ahmed Gwale by deceiving him to part with the sum of one million Naira
only (N1,000,000) under the pretense that you had a land with good title
which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offense contrary to
section 320 and punishable under section 322 of the Penal Code.”
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted
bail by Justice Lawan in the sum of N1m each and one reliable surety who
must be a civil servant of level 14 and above.
The case was adjourned to case to December 16, 2014 for commencement of trial.”
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