- Full Details Of EFCC Charges Against Danladi Umar Emerge
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Prosecutors alleged contract linked payments totalling ₦15.6 million benefited Umar’s wife.
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Court adjourned bail hearing to July 15 and ordered Umar’s remand.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the former Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, over alleged fraud.
Umar, who also served as Chairman of the CCT Tenders Board, was arraigned on Thursday on a four count charge bordering on alleged nepotism and conferring corrupt advantage upon himself involving ₦15,587,833.76.
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that acording to the EFCC, the charges relate to payments allegedly made to Umar’s wife by companies linked to contracts awarded by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
In the first count, the anti graft agency alleged that on October 5, 2021, Umar used his position as CCT Chairman and Chairman of the Tenders Board to confer a corrupt and unfair advantage on himself by causing the sum of ₦5.5 million to be paid to his wife, Zulaihatu Danladi Umar, through her Keystone Bank account by Kurchmives International Limited.
The EFCC alleged that the company was a subcontractor under a contract awarded by the Code of Conduct Tribunal to Momanaf Global Ventures Limited for the internal and external painting of the tribunal’s headquarters.
The commission said the action contravened Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and is punishable under the same provision.
In the second count, the EFCC alleged that on January 25, 2024, Umar caused another payment of ₦6 million to be made to his wife’s Zenith Bank account by Portal Realities Limited, a sister company of JTF Global Links Limited.
According to the prosecution, JTF Global Links Limited had been awarded the contract for the digitalisation of the Code of Conduct Tribunal’s management records, and the payment constituted another instance of conferring corrupt advantage on himself.
Umar pleaded not guilty to all four charges when they were read before the court.
Following his plea, Justice Kekemeke adjourned the matter until July 15, 2026, for hearing on his bail application and ordered that the former CCT chairman be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of the application.
