Shuaibu is facing charges on seven counts that include criminal breach of trust, impersonation, and using deception to get money.

Ibrahim Nuhu Shuaibu has been charged with fraud by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in front of Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, which is seated in Kaduna State.

Shuaibu is facing charges on seven counts that include criminal breach of trust, impersonation, and using deception to get money.

The amount of money is N100 million.

One of his counts states: “That sometime in 2017 in Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court, you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a. Ishaku Abdulrazak) (M) and lIya Garba (now deceased) did conspire between yourselves to do an illegal act, to wit: obtaining money under false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

Another says, “That sometime in 2018 at Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court, you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a. Ishaku Abdulrazak)(M), obtained the total sum of N47,050,000.00 (Forty-Seven Million and Fifty Thousand Naira) from one Faisal Safiyanu with the intent to defraud, when you claimed to supply him petroleum products, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

When the accusations were read to him, he entered a “not guilty” plea to each of them, which prompted M. Lawal, the prosecution attorney, to ask the court to set a trial date.

AbdulKareem Audu, his attorney, did not submit a bail request.

Subsequently, Judge Khobo directed that the defendant be placed under EFCC custody on remand.

The prosecution of Shuaibu began at some point in 2017. He introduced himself to his victim as the Group Executive Director of NNPCL and offered to help him obtain over 2,000 litres of petroleum products; in exchange, the victim submitted the agreed-upon sum in installments to Shuaibu’s bank accounts.

After being paid, Shuaibu did not honour his end of the contract and did not give his victim his money back.