The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared a Kastina-based
businessman, Idris Usman, wanted for an alleged N1bn fraud involving the
Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme otherwise known as SURE-P.
According to the EFCC, the
suspect, who is the Managing Director, Idris Kwado and Sons Limited and Aminu
Dikko and Sons Limited, was given a contract of N1bn by the immediate-past
governor of Kastina State, Ibrahim Shema, who has been charged for an alleged
N11bn fraud.
In a statement on Tuesday, the EFCC said, “Alhaji Idris Kwado Usman, the Managing Director, Idris Kwado and Sons Limited and Aminu Dikko and Sons Limited, is a Katsina-based contractor wanted for complicity in the misappropriation of over N1bn SURE-P funds in Kastina
“Usman, 49, is dark in
complexion, hails from Katsina Local Government Area and had his last address
as Kwado village, off Ring Road, Katsina.”
SURE-P was a scheme established
by the Federal Government of Nigeria during the administration of former
President Goodluck Jonathan to re-invest the Federal Government’s savings from
fuel subsidy removal on critical infrastructure
The EFCC last week charged the
immediate past governor of Katsina State, Shema, and three others with an N11bn
fraud.
Shema is being charged
alongside Sani Makana, Lawal Safana and Ibrahim Dankaba before Justice Maikaita
Bako of the Katsina State High Court for the alleged offences of criminal
breach of trust, abuse of office and diversion of public funds to the tune of
over N11bn during his tenure as governor.
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