By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 13, 2025, arraigned a couple before a Kaduna State High Court for allegedly impersonating the wife of Katsina State Governor, and in the process defrauding some otvictims .
Alhaji BabaSule Abubakar Sadiq, Wife, Hafsat Kabir Lawal,and two others were charged with obtaining by false pretence ,the sum of N197 million from some persons, hiding under the name and offices of the Wife of the Katsina state Governor Fatima Dikko Radda.
The anti-graft Commission in a Statement on Thursday informed that the suspects were arraigned on Monday, March 10, 2025, before Justice Amina Bello of the Kaduna State High Court on charges bordering on alleged money laundering, stealing and obtaining by false pretence.
According to the EFCC, the accused severally and collectively conspired and defrauded their victims through different guises, including impersonating the Wife of the Katsina state Governor.
According to the facts of the case, Hafsat had introduced herself to the victims, as one of the wives of Governor Dikko U mar Radda, while her husband Sadiq, provided the wife with two Sim cards ,which were registered under the name Fatima Dikko Radda.
Their arraignment, according to the Commission, was sequel to their arrest by the Department of State Services DSS, which subsequently transferred the matter to the anti-Corruption Commission.
“That you Hafsat Kabir Lawal ,Baba Sule Abubakar Sadiq, Abdullahi Bala,and Ladani Akindele Ayodele, sometime in December, 2024, in Kaduna, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court ,with intent to defraud ,did obtain the sum of N89,000,000.00 ( Eight Nine Million Naira only from Aminu Usman which money you caused to be paid into the Taj Bank Plc account number 0009914725, belonging to Abdullahi Bala under the false pretence that you had the sum of $ 53,300 ( Fifty Three Thousand ,Three Hundred United States Dollars to exchange the Naira equivalent which pretence you knew to be false and you hereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (1) of the advance fee fraud and other fraud related offences Act 2006 punishable under section 1,(3) of the same Act” one of the charges reads.
Consequent upon pleading not guilty to the charges, and after due consideration of arguments of both the prosecution counsel and those of the defendants on the issue of bail ,Justice Bello ordered the accused to be remanded in custody until the next date of hearing March 17, 2025.
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