The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has re-arraigned a Nasarawa State Zonal coordinator of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), Labaran Tanko, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Abuja for alleged conspiracy and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N46 million naira.
The Defendant was alleged to have between July 2013 and July 2016 in Nasarawa state committed criminal breach of trust by allegedly disposing of 22,257 (Twenty Two Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty-Seven) units of e- facility scratch cards belonging to JAMB, without duly rendering accounts of the disposal, an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Law.
He pleaded not guilty to the five-count ammended charges slammed on him and Counsel to the Prosecution, Ekele Iheanacho informed the court that the Defendant is on an existing bail earlier granted by the former Court where the Defendant was first arraigned.
Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Hassan Babangida, however, granted him bail in the sum of N10 million and a surety in like sum, who must be a civil servant on Grade Level 12 or above and resident in Abuja.
The Defendant claimed that his car got burnt and in the process scratch cards worth N23million were destroyed in the incident, while JAMB claimed that thorough investigation, through simple checks by JAMB revealed that the cards Tanko claimed were burnt alongside his car were used for registration by students in Nasarawa State.
Tanko was first arraigned before Hon. Justice Olasunbo Goodluck who was later elevated to the Court of Appeal Bench
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