- Six SUBEB officials have been arraigned in Ilorin by the EFCC on charges of misappropriating N96 million.
- The charges include criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of funds during two separate periods in 2018 and 2019.
- The defendants pleaded “not guilty” and the trial has been adjourned to April 16, 2025, with all six remanded in custody.
The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned six officials from the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) before Justice Akanbi of the State High Court in Ilorin on charges of N96 million fraud.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the officials Ahmed Husain Olarewaju (Director, Finance and Supply), Omole Omololu John (Controller, Finance and Accounts), Fatai Oyerinde (Coordinator, Salary Unit), Mujeeb Ibrahim (Executive Officer, Account and Salary Schedule), Salami Temitope Bashir, and Dauda Aweda Quozim (staff members of the Salary Unit) face a four-count indictment for breach of trust and misappropriation of funds totaling N96 million.
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One of the charges states that between September and December 2018 in Ilorin, while serving as public officers at SUBEB, they were entrusted with N33,891,982.37 (Thirty-Three Million, Eight Hundred and Ninety-One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Eighty-Two Naira, Thirty-Seven Kobo) from SUBEB funds in account No. 0031236028 at Sterling Bank Plc, and that they committed the offence of criminal breach of trust under Section 315 of the Penal Code.
Another charge alleges that between January and June 2019 in Ilorin, the same group, entrusted with funds from SUBEB’s account No. 0031236028—this time domiciled at Stealing Bank Plc—misappropriated N30,406,629.09 (Thirty Million, Four Hundred and Six Thousand, Six Hundred and Twenty-Nine Naira, Nine Kobo), thereby also committing criminal breach of trust under Section 315 of the Penal Code.
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After the charges were read, the defendants pleaded “not guilty.” Prosecution counsel Andrew Akoja requested a trial date and for the officials to be remanded in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Centre. In response, defense counsel led by Abdullahi Lawal made oral bail applications on behalf of the accused.
Justice Akanbi adjourned the case to Wednesday, April 16, 2025, and ordered that the defendants be remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Ilorin.
