Former Special Duties Minister, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki has been arraigned with three others before a Federal High Court in Abuja on fraudulent allegations and granted bail thereafter.
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Turaki, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who served as the Minister for Special Duties and Inter-Government Affairs ft 2013 to 2015, also Minister of Labour from 2014 to 2015, was arraigned on a 16-count charge file by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Those who were arraigned along with him were his former Special Assistant, Sampson Okpetu, and two firms allegedly owned by Okpetu – Samtee Essentials Limited and Pasco Investment Limited.
EFCC alleged, in the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/61/2020, that Turaki used the two companies belonging to his aide, to illegally diverted funds.
The defendants pleaded not guilty after an official of the court read the charge to them.
Upon their arraignment and their request for bail, Justice Inyang Ekwo admitted them to bail and adopted the terms and conditions attached to the administrative bail earlier granted them by the EFCC.
He barred the defendants from traveling outside the country without the permission of the court.
Justice Ekwo fixed June 22 this year for the commencement of the trial.
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