EFCC Drags Ex-Kaduna Government Official Back To Court Over ₦16m Fraud Case

The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, June 22, 2026, re-arraigned a former councillor of Kaduna South Local Government Area, Theophilus Madami, before Justice A. Isiaka of the Kaduna State High Court on fraud-related charges.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

Madami was re-arraigned on a one-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence, criminal breach of trust, and criminal misappropriation involving ₦16,080,000.

According to the charge, the defendant was alleged to have, on or about November 5, 2018, in Kaduna, fraudulently obtained 4,020 units of pasta food products valued at ₦16,080,000 from one Ibrahim Ringim Haruna, property belonging to Pyramid Supplies and Services Limited. He was accused of falsely claiming that the Kaduna South Local Government Area had requested the goods, a representation the prosecution said he knew to be untrue, contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Following his plea, prosecuting counsel Y.J. Matiyak urged the court to remand him in the Kaduna Correctional Centre pending trial, while defence counsel B.E. Gwadah made an oral application for bail, which the prosecution opposed.

Justice Isiaka adjourned the matter until July 22, 2026, for ruling on the bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded in custody pending the determination of the application.

It was recalled that the defendant was first arraigned in 2019 over allegations of obtaining ₦16.08 million from Pyramid Supplies and Services Limited. The EFCC had previously recovered ₦5 million from the alleged proceeds of crime on behalf of the victim.