Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Village Head Remanded in Prison Custody For Land Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Gombe zonal office, on January 24, 2018, arraigned one Alhaji Muhammad Uba Wuntin Dada before Justice M. Shitu of Federal High Court, Bauchi, on one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence. Dada, who is the Village Head of Wuntin Dada under Bauchi Emirate Council (SARKIN WUNTIN DADA) was alleged to have fraudulently sold a parcel of land in October 2013. The complainant claimed that he bought the plot of land at the sum of N550,000 (Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). After two years of purchase, another claimant showed up to la…