Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Employment Scam: EFCC Witness Testifies Against Custom's Boss Impersonator

The trial of Azeez Yakubu Afolayan, who impersonated the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd) to engage in employment scam, continued on March 19, 2019 with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, presenting its first witness. Afolayan was on March 14, 2019 arraigned before Justice M. Abdulgafar of a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on a four-count charge bordering on impersonation, job scam and obtaining money under false pretence. Giving evidence, the witness, Emmanuel Furo, an Assistant Superintendent of Custom…