
EFCC ARRAIGNS FORMER ZAMFARA COURT REGISTRAR OVER ALLEGED FORGERY, DIVERSION OF N3.8M
Abubakar Garba Dandare, a former registrar of Zamfara State Upper Sharia Court 1 Gusau, is scheduled to be charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Bello Shinkafi of the Zamfara State High Court, who is seated in Gusau.
Dandare is being charged with two counts of misappropriating N3.8 million from the estate of deceased businessman Alhaji Ladan Mada and forging Aminu Mada’s signature on the Court Cash Deposit Register.
Dandare was charged by the EFCC in court case number ZMJ/GS/13C/2024 of diverting N3,837,634.46, a retention fee paid by Zamfara State Ministry of Finance, for the family of late Alhaji Ladan Mada on the 4th of December 2012, while working as the Registrar of Upper Sharia Court 1, Samara Gusau, Zamfara State.
He was also accused of forging the signature of one Aminu Mada, the next of kin of late Alhaji Mada on the Court Cash Deposit Register of the Upper Sharia Court 1, Samaru Gusau, Zamfara State, with the intention to part with sum of N3,837,634.46 belonging to late Alhaji Mada.
According to EFCC, the suspect committed the offence of Criminal Breach of Trust contrary to sections 311 of the Penal Code CAP 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria 1963, and punishable under section 312 of the same law.
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