The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, June 4, arraigned Bilal Muhammad before Justice Amina Mustapha Ibrahim of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri over ₦500,000 false pretence charge.
The defendant was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence to the tune of ₦500,000.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to him.
Following his plea, prosecution counsel A. D. Abdulmalik prayed the court for a trial date and urged that the defendant be remanded in a correctional facility.
Justice Ibrahim adjourned the matter till June 22, for commencement of hearing and ordered that the defendant be remanded in the Maiduguri Maximum Correctional Facility.
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