Justice B.T. Zannah of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, convicted and sentenced one Yagana Musa Mohammed to six months’ imprisonment.
The convict was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a one-count amended charge of criminal misappropriation to the tune of N3,500,000.00 (Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira).
The charge reads: “That you, Yagana Musa Mohammed, sometime in 2025 at Maiduguri, Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, dishonestly misappropriated and converted to your own use the aggregate sum of N3,500,000.00 only, money belonging to Mohammed Tukur Yaji, during the course of assisting him to travel to the State of Qatar, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 296 of the Penal Code Law and Other Matters Connected Therein, and punishable under Section 297 of the same Law.”
The defendant pleaded “guilty” to the charge when it was read to her.
Following her plea, prosecution counsel A.D. Abdulmalik urged the court to convict her accordingly.
In the same vein, counsel to the defendant, H.A. Aliyu, pleaded for leniency, informing the court that the convict was remorseful for her actions and had made restitution to the petitioner.
Thereafter, Justice Zannah convicted and sentenced the convict to six months’ imprisonment, with an option of a N50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand Naira) fine.
The convict’s journey to the correctional facility began when she collected the sum of N3.5 million from the petitioner under the pretence that she would secure him a job in the State of Qatar, a promise she knew to be false. She neither secured the job for the victim nor returned his money. #Securitynewsalert.com
