The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on February 16, 2017, arraigned one
Bashir Ishaq Bashir alongside his companies, Leda Greenpower Consortium, Leda
Greenpower Nigeria Limited and Leda Consortium Limited before Justice S.E.
Aladetoyinbo of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Maitama, on a
three-count charge of obtaining by false pretence and cheating to the tune of
$1 million (500 million naira).
Bashir was
alleged to have collected the said sum as part payment of a $3 million
agreement from Althani Investments Company Limited for the purpose of forming a
consortium to bid for shares at the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company.
The bidding failed and several attempts made by the company for a refund of the
money proved abortive.
He pleaded
"not guilty" to the charges when they were read to him. Prosecution
counsel, Rimamsomte Ezekiel, thereafter asked for a trial date.
Responding,
counsel for the defendant, A.B. Anachebe, SAN, moved the motion for his bail
application.
Ezekiel
opposed the application, arguing that "the defendant if granted bail will
interfere with prosecution witnesses". He further argued that the
application was not proper in the sense that the defence only mentioned the
name of the first defendant without reference to the second, third and fourth
defendants.
Justice
Aladetoyinbo, while adjourning to April 10, 2017 for hearing granted him bail
in the sum of N2 million and one surety in like some. The surety must be
resident in Abuja and must have a landed property.
(Nationalhelm)
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