N450m Fraud: Court Throws out Ex-Minister Bulama, Others Applications for Stay of Proceedings thisdaylive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thisdaylive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Michael Olugbode
The Court of Appeal in Gombe State has ordered that the case involving a former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdu Bulama and four others should be reassigned to another Federal High Court for retrial.
The former minister was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (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 a former Commissioner for Integrated and Rural Development in Yobe State, Mr. Mohammed Kadai, and the Deputy Coordinator of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mr. Abba Gana Tata, Mr. Muhammad Mamu and Mr. Hassan Ibn Jaks.