Sokoto Govt Official Charged For Giving Produced Grant Letters To Understudies Who Utilized Them To Pick Up Passage Visas To The UK

A Deputy Director with the Sokoto State Scholarship Board (SSSB), Mohammad Buhari Yusuf, has been summoned under the watchful eye of the State High Court in Sokoto by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) for imitation......
 Yusuf was brought before Hon. Equity Muhammad of High Court No.7 on a three-check charge for purportedly marking and giving produced grant sponsorship letters to three understudies who utilized same to pick up section Visas to the United Kingdom from the British High Commission in Abuja. The offense is opposite and culpable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Act, 2000. 

ICPC's arraignment counsel, Mashkur Salisu Esq, told the court that the blamed who is filling in as the Deputy Director accountable for International Student Matters of the SSSB intentionally offered a bogus expression to an official of the British High Commission through the deceptive archives. The offense likewise repudiates Section 25(1)(b) and culpable under Section 25(1)(b) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Act, 2000. 

The denounced was likewise charged hence: "That you Muhammad Buhari Yusuf approximately the long stretch of September, 2018 or something like that in Sokoto inside the purview of this Honorable Court with purpose to make harm the open produced a grant sponsorship letter of the Sokoto State and you accordingly dedicated an offense in opposition to Section 348 and culpable under Section 349 of the Sokoto Penal Code of Law, 2019." 

He argued not liable to all the charges favored against him while the barrier counsel, Nuhu Aminu and Faruk Abdullahi asked the court to concede bail to their customer on liberal terms. 

Insight to ICPC while not protesting the bail application anyway encouraged that the court award the bail with sensible sureties that would guarantee the participation of the denounced at his preliminary. 

Equity Muhammad from that point conceded the blamed individual bail in the entirety for One Hundred Thousand Naira (N100, 000.00) and a surety who must be on Grade Level 15 in the Sokoto State Civil Service with landed property. The judge additionally deferred the issue to twelfth March, 2020 for beginning of hearing.