Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Court Jails Man for N35m Fraud in Abuja

Justice S. M. Mayana of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja, on Monday, May 5, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Daniel Ameh to imprisonment for fraud. The convict was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC on a one-count charge, bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N35million (Thirty-five Million Naira), which ran contrary to Section 309 of the Penal Code and punishable under the same section and to which he pleaded “not guilty.” In the course of his trial, prosecution counsel, Ibrahim Buba called three witnesses an…