The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on September 2, 2019, arraigned Babagana Abba Dalori and his Company, Galaxy Transportation and Construction Services, on fresh 12-count charge bordering on breach of trust and obtaining by false pretense, totaling Ninety-five Million Five Hundred and Thirty Thousand Naira (95,530,000.00) before Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Nyanya, Abuja.
The defendants allegedly obtained the sum from one Asiya Aliyu Bala, an offense contrary to Section 311 of the Panel Code Act Cap 532 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (Abuja) and punishable under Section 312 of the same Act.
When the case was brought up for hearing prosecution counsel, Maryam Aminu Ahmed, applied that the charges be read to the accused.
One of the count reads: “That you Babagana Abba Dalori and Galaxy Transportation and Construction Services Limited sometime in September, 2017 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of Ninety-five Million Five Hundred and Thirty Thousand Naira (95,530,000.00) from one Asiya Aliyu Bala, under false pretence that the money would be invested in the business of buying and selling of the of special trip(s) of excavated sand, 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”.
