N712m Fraud: You Have Case To Answer, Court Tells Lamido, Associates

A former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, and his co-defendants have a case to answer in the N712m money laundering charges filed against them.

This is according to a ruling to the by a Federal High Court on the no-case submission filed by the defendants.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting Lamido, alongside two of his sons, Aminu and Mustapha.

Other defendants in the suit, who are facing 37 charges, include Aminu Abubakar, a business associate of the Lamidos, and four companies: Bamaina Company Nigeria Limited, Bamaina Aluminium Limited, Speeds International Limited, and Bartholomew Darlington Agoha.

After the EFCC closed its case, Lamido filed a no-case submission, stating that the evidence provided by the prosecution did not disclose any case against him.

In his ruling on Monday, the judge, Ijeoma Ojukwu, dismissed the no-case submission filed by Lamido and ordered him to open his defence on November 8.