Nigerian baker Abdurazak Adamu arraigned for defrauding federal government

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kaduna Zonal Office, on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, arraigned a Sokoto-based baker, Abdurazak Adamu, before Justice Mohammed Mohammed of the State High Court 7, Sokoto State.

The defendant was docked on a one-count charge of criminal breach of trust to the tune of N8.548, 140.80 (Eight Million, Five Hundred and Forty-eight Thousand, One Hundred and Forty  Naira, Eighty Kobo), being debt that accrued from un-repaid loan of over N13.2million to him from Bank of Industry (BoI) on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FAM & RD) for baking of cassava bread.

Trouble started for Adamu when Hassan Mohammed and Kareem Adesina on behalf of Bank of Industry (BOI) sent a petition against the defendant to the Kaduna Zonal Office of the EFCC, alleging that the he defrauded the bank.