Court jails 2 fake EFCC officials in Kano 
Justice Nasiru Saminu of the Kano State High Court on Friday sentenced of two persons Buhari Abdullahi and Umar Mukhtar Usman to six months imprisonment each for parading themselves as investigators of the EFCC.
The duo were arraigned on a one-count charge of falsely parading themselves as investigators of the EFCC by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The charge stated that they used a forged EFCC Identity Card in a desperate bid to lend credibility to their fraudulent impersonation, an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 132 of the Penal Code Law.
The charge reads ‘’That you Buhari Abdullahi and Umar Mukhtar Usman sometime in May 2025 at Kano within the jurisdiction of this honourable court falsely impersonated to be investigators of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) where you used false identity card and paraded yourselves as staff of EFCC and you thereby committed an offense contrary to and punishable under Section 132 of the Penal Code law.”
Upon arraignment, the defendants pleaded guilty’ to the charge.
In light of their guilty pleas, prosecution counsel, Idris I. Haruna presented the facts of the case and urged the court to convict them accordingly.
Consequently, Justice Saminu convicted them both sentenced them to six months imprisonment with an option of (N50,000.00) fine each.
The convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested by operatives of the EFCC. They were charged to court and jailed.
