A Federal High Court in
Abuja on Monday ordered a former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel
Suswam, and two of his former aides, to be remanded in Kuje Prisons,
Abuja.
Justice Gabriel Kolawole
gave the verdict after the three defendants were arraigned on 32 counts
of alleged diversion of a total sum of N9.79bn meant for Subsidy
Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme.
Although the judge
granted each of the three defendants bail in the sum of N250m, among
other conditions, he ordered that they be remanded in prison pending
when the Deputy Chief Registrar, Litigation, of the Federal High Court,
Abuja would inform the court that the bail conditions had been met.
The
prosecution alleged in the 32 counts preferred against the three
defendants that the total sum of N9,791,602,453.8 was meant for the
SURE-P scheme and a small fraction of it for police reform.
The money was allegedly diverted by the defendants between 2012 and 2015 while Suswam was the governor of the state.
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