EFCC arraigns ‘Mama Boko Haram’, two others for N150m fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned  Aisha Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, and two others for N150M fraud.

The commission disclosed this in a statement shared via its X handle on Monday. 

According to the statement, Wakil was arraigned alongside "Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode w before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on two-count charges bordering on conspiracy and cheating to the tune of N150,000,000.00."

The post partly read, "The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil (a.k.a Mama Boko Haram) alongside Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on two-count charges bordering on conspiracy and cheating to the tune of N150,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira only).”

The defendants pleaded 'not guilty' to the charges.

Justice Fadawu adjourned the case and ordered the defendants remanded at a Correctional Centre.

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