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N450m Fraud: Appeal Court Orders Fresh Trial of Former Minister, Bulama, Four Others

In the cause of the trial, counsel for the EFCC, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed presented six witnesses and tendered several documents that were admitted in evidence by the Court.

by The Union Nigeria
March 11, 2021
in Judiciary
N450 million fraud

Dr Abdul Bulama (PHOTO: Herald)

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The Court of Appeal in Gombe State has ordered that the case involving a former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdul Bulama and four others to be reassigned to another Federal High Court for retrial.

It could be recalled; the former minister was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the EFCC, on Friday, May 29, 2018 before Justice Isa Hamman Dashen of the Federal High Court, Damaturu, Yobe State on a seven count charge that bordered on money laundering to the tune of N450 million.

Bulama was prosecuted alongside Mohammed Kadai, a former Commissioner for Integrated and Rural Development in Yobe State and Deputy Coordinator of Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Abba Gana Tata; Muhammad Mamu and Hassan Ibn Jaks.

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In the cause of the trial, counsel for the EFCC, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed presented six witnesses and tendered several documents that were admitted in evidence by the Court.

At the close of the prosecution’s case, the defendants opted for a “no case submission”.  Justice Isa Hamman Dashen of the Federal High Court, upheld the “no case submission”, discharged and acquitted all the defendants.

Dissatisfied with the ruling, the EFCC filed an appeal, asking the Appellate Court to side aside the decision of the lower Court.

N450 million fraud
Dr Abdul Bulama (PHOTO: Herald)

The Appeal Court in its judgment of March 3, 2021, upheld the argument of the EFCC that the lower Court erred in discharging and acquitting the defendants.

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The judgment read by Justice Tunde O. Awotoye, held that “the charge No.  FHC/DM/CR/25/2018 FRN VS DR ABDU BULAMA & 4 OTHERS is ordered to be remitted back to the lower court to be reassigned to another Federal High Court Judge other than Hon. Justice Isah H. Dashen to be heard de novo.”

The Court held that “…there is inferential evidence against the respondents which should not be brushed aside.

Investigations by the EFCC revealed that Bulama and co-defendants received and shared the said sum which was provided by Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, to influence the outcome of the 2015 Presidential Election.

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