Gombe employee remanded for tearing EFCC’s investigation letters

A desk officer in command of responding to official correspondences within the workplace of the Secretary to the State Authorities, Gombe State, Usman Mallam, has been arraigned for allegedly tearing the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee’s Official Investigation Actions’ letters.

Mallam who was arraigned earlier than a Federal Excessive Courtroom in Gombe was additionally accused of obstructing the fee’s investigation.

He was stated to have dedicated an offence opposite to Part 38 (1) and punishable beneath Part 38 (2) (a) and (b) of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee Institution Act.

The lone cost in opposition to Mallam reads, “that you simply, Usman Mallam on or in regards to the twenty sixth day of February 2024 at Gombe, Gombe State inside the jurisdiction of this honourable court docket whereas the officers of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, have been finishing up an investigation exercise involving an alleged financial and monetary crime, did willfully hinder the stated investigation by tearing the EFCC formal letters of investigation actions dated January 1, 2024, and February 21, 2024, respectively”.

A press release on Thursday by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, famous that Mallam pleaded not responsible to the cost most well-liked in opposition to him.

Subsequently, counsel for the defendant, SS Usman, utilized for the bail of his shopper.

Justice T. G Ringim thereafter granted the defendant bail within the sum of N10m and one surety in like sum.

He famous that the surety shall be a director in a authorities institution or a non-public firm with a capital value of not lower than N10m.

“Along with the situations, the Registrar of the court docket ought to confirm the id of the surety and each the surety and the defendant shall submit two passport pictures to the court docket,” the assertion quoted the decide as saying.

Justice Ringim remanded the defendant in Gombe State Correctional Service pending the fulfilment of the bail situations and adjourned the case to July 9, 2024, for trial.