Justice Muhammad Maina of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, has convicted and sentenced Ahmed Saleh Mubi to one year of imprisonment for criminal misappropriation.

Mubi was arraigned on Thursday, September 19, 2024, by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a one-count bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N19.691,200.

The lone count read: “That you, Ahmed Saleh Mubi, between December 2019 and March 2020, at Maiduguri, Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, offered to sell CFA 45,200.00 to one Abdulkarim Mohammed Saleh at the cost of N20,975,200.00 and you collected 14 motorcycles valued at N324,000.00 from the said Abdulkarim Mohammed Saleh for you to sell and remit the proceeds to him, did dishonestly misappropriate the sum of N19,691,200.00 (Nineteen Million, Six Hundred and Ninety-One Thousand, Two Hundred Naira) only, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 and punishable under Section 309 of the Penal Code Laws of Borno State, Cap.102, Vol.3 of 1994 respectively.”

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to him, prompting the commencement of the trial. During the trial, counsel for the prosecution, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed and Faruku Muhammad, presented three witnesses and tendered several exhibits.

Delivering judgment, Justice Maina convicted and sentenced Mubi to one year of imprisonment or an option of a fine of N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira only).

The convict’s road to the Correctional Centre began when he collected the sum of N19,691,200.00 from Abdulkarim Mohammed Saleh to exchange for CFA 45,200.00 and collected 14 motorcycles valued at N324,000.00.

He neither returned the money nor the motorcycles he collected from his victim.