Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

N20m Fraud: Witness Reveals How Revenue Official Defrauded JAMB with Fake E-Facility Cards

Justice Peter Affen of the FCT High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday October 15, 2019, heard how Aliyu Yakubu, a former Revenue Officer with the Kano State zonal office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), siphoned N20, 000,000 (Twenty Million Naira), belonging to JAMB by replacing sold e-facility cards with cardboard, cut to size. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is prosecuting Yakubu on an eight-count charge, bordering on criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of funds and money laundering to the tune of N20, 000,000 (Twenty Million Naira). Count one…