Court Sentences Two Fake EFCC Staff to Jail in Kano

Two fake EFCC staff in the person of Buhari Abdullahi and Umar Mukhtar Usman have been sentenced to six months' jail term each. 

The Kano Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the conviction of the two suspects on Friday, July 25, 2025, before Justice Nasiru Saminu of the State High Court.

Buhari and Mukhtar were arraigned on a one-count charge of falsely parading themselves as the crime commission officers. 

While the charge was read in court, it stated that the duo forged the commission ID cards to give credence to their fraudulent acts, 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.

After they were arraigned,  both of them pleaded “guilty’’ to the charge.

Following their guilty pleas, prosecution counsel,  Idris I. Haruna presented the facts of the case and urged the court to convict them accordingly.

Justice Saminu then proceeded to convict the two suspects to a six-month jail term with an option to pay a fine of Fifty Thousand Naira (N50,000.00) each.