‘Mama Boko Haram’ and two others are charged with N150 million in fraud

Aisha Alkali Wakil, sometimes known as “Mama Boko Haram,” and associates have been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with two counts of conspiracy and defrauding totaling N150,000,000.00.

Tahiru Saidu Daura, Prince Lawal Shoyode, and Mama Boko Haram were all charged before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court in Maiduguri.

The three allegedly committed the violation while working as officers for the Complete Care and Aid Foundation, a nongovernmental organisation with its headquarters in Maiduguri, according to the EFCC.

According to the EFCC, the suspects attracted Alhaji Bulama Bakki, the CEO of Bakki Commodity Investment Company Limited and Ngumati Investment Company Limited, in 2018 by pretending to be carrying out a contract.

Additionally, they asked him to provide seven units of a 2018-brand mobile ultra-scanning machine for a total of N150,000,000.00.

The accused utilised the victim’s goods but declined to pay him for them, which ultimately resulted in their arrest.

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Count two of the charges reads: “That you Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode, while being the Chief Executive Officer, Programme Manager and Country Director respectively of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, (a Non-Governmental Organisation) and Saidu Mukhtar (at large) sometimes in August, 2018 in Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Alhaji Bulama Bakki CEO Bakki Commodity Investment Company Limited and Ngumati Investment Company Limited under the guise of executing a contract for the supply of 5000 bags of high quality white beans of 50kg each at the rate of N23,000 (Twenty Three Thousand Naira) only each and seven unit mobile ultra-scanning Machines solar energy (2018 brand) at the rate of N5, 000,000.00 (Five Million Naira) only totaling N 150,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira only) which he did and you refused to pay him and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320(a) of the Borno State Penal Code Law Cap 102 and punishable under section 322 of the same Law.”

The prosecution’s solicitors, A.I. Arogha and S.O. Saka, asked the court for a trial date after the defendants entered a “not guilty” plea to the accusations that were read to them.

After then, Justice Fadawu put the case on hold and mandated that the defendants be kept in custody at a correctional facility.