The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it has arrested and prosecuted Aisha Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram and two others over N150M fraud.
This was contained in a statement released on the agency’s official X account on Monday, 16th October, 2023.
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.”
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It partly wrote, “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.