Two men, Buhari Abdullahi and Umar Mukhtar Usman, have been sentenced to prison by Justice Nasiru Saminu of the Kano State High Court after confessing to impersonating officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The duo were arraigned on a one-count charge of falsely presenting themselves as EFCC investigators. The case revealed that they used a forged EFCC identity card in their scheme to deceive unsuspecting individuals.
According to the charge sheet:
“That you Buhari Abdullahi and Umar Mukhtar Usman, sometime in May 2025 at Kano, within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, falsely impersonated to be investigators of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) where you used a false identity card and paraded yourselves as staff of EFCC and thereby committed an offense contrary to and punishable under Section 132 of the Penal Code law.”
Both Abdullahi and Usman pleaded guilty to the charge.
In his ruling, Justice Saminu convicted them and handed down a sentence of six months imprisonment each.
However, the court gave them the option of a ₦50,000 fine in lieu of jail time.
