Cashier with the Kano State Sharia Court Division, Hussaina Imam, alongside 14 others, including judges, registrars and financial registrars, were on Wednesday arraigned before the court and remanded in a custodial centre over allegations of theft, forgery, criminal conspiracy and breach of trust.
When the case came up before Chief Magistrate Mustapha Datti, the Principal State Counsel, Kano State Ministry of Justice, Zaharaddeen Mata, prayed the court to grant him leave to read the first information report to the defendants.
The report read, “On August 20, 2021, an official complaint was received at the commission from the Kano State Ministry of Justice that sometime in 2020/2021, you, Bashir Ali Kurawa, Saadatu Umar, Tijjani Abdullahi, Maryam Jibrin Garba, Shamsu Sani and Hussaina Iman, committed an offence of criminal conspiracy during which you, Hussaina Imam, used your official position as cashier in the Kano State Sharia Court of Appeal and conspired with the aforementioned persons, including one Suleiman and...
“An official complaint was received by the commission from the Kano State Ministry of Justice that sometime between 2018 and 2021, you, Sani Ali Muhammad, Sani Buba Aliyu, Bashir Baffa, Garzali Wada, Hadi Tijjani Mu’azu, Alkasim Abdullahi, Yusuf Abdullahi, Mustapha Bala Ibrahim, Jafar Ahmad, Adamu Balarabe, Aminu Abdulkadir, Abdullahi Suleiman Zango, Garba Yusuf, Bashir Ali Kurawa and Hussaina Imam, criminally conspired, breached the trust in you as public servants, acted jointly and created 15...
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