SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, (THEWILL) – A whistleblower, Abubakar Sani Chindo, has been arraigned at a Kaduna high court for allegedly providing false information on former Vice President Namadi Sambo.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) accused Chindo of providing it with false information that huge sums of money were stashed at the Kaduna residence of Sambo.
Elijah Akaakohol, ICPC counsel, who read out the two count charge before the court, said Chindo gave the false information on June 21, 2017 to which Chindo pleaded not guilty.
The charge reads: “That sometime in 2013 you conveyed a huge sums of money both in the Nigerian and other foreign currencies from Abuja Airport to a house in Ungwan Rimi GRA, Kaduna on the directive of a retired Army officer which money you suspected to be ill-gotten wealth and still laying in boxes in that said house at the moment of your report.
“And of which you made the officer of the commission of the ICPC to carry out a sting operation that turned out to be false.
“You thereby committed an offence, contrary to, and punishable under section 64 (3) of the corrupt practices and other related offences act 2000.”
Although Chindo prayed the court to grant him bail, he was denied by M.T Aliyu, the judge, who remanded him in prison saying that the accused needed a lawyer to perfect his bail conditions.
THEWILL recalls that operatives of the ICPC, on June 28, raided the Kaduna residence of Sambo but found nothing incriminating.
