Kaduna Councillor Dupes Pasta Distributor, Pockets N11m

A councillor representing Kakuri Hausa Ward of Kaduna South Local Government of Kaduna State, Theophilus Madami has been arrested by state Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Madami was arrested for alleged criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of funds to the tune of eleven million eighty thousand naira.

According to a statement on the Facebook page of the commission, the suspect allegedly approached one, Ibrahim Ringim Haruna, Chief Executive Officer of Pyramid Supplied Services Limited, a distributor of pasta products, with claims that his council needed pasta products for distribution to its citizens.

His arrest came as a result of a petition written by Haruna.

The statement noted that the company, sometime in November, 2018, supplied products worth sixteen million, eighty thousand naira only (N16, 080,000) to the suspect who paid a deposit of N5m, leaving a balance of N11.080,000.00.

“After delivery of the goods, he diverted the proceeds into his personal use and refused to pay the balance as agreed,” the statement read in part.

“The suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.”