Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Alleged Fraudster Who Cloned Ex-Customs Boss' Aide’s Phone to Produce Accomplice as Bail Condition

Justice D.Z. Senchi of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Jabi on March 8, 2018 ordered Balarabe Abdullahi to produce his co-defendant Usman Baba Yusuf (currently at large) as part of conditions to be fulfilled before he is granted bail. Abdullahi is facing a four-count charge bordering on impersonation and obtaining by false pretence, after he cloned the phone number of Abdulmumini Bako, a former Special Assistant to the former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko Inde, and used it to defraud his victims of N2million. He had been in prison custody si…