Kaduna zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a councillor representing Kakuri Hausa Ward of Kaduna South local government, Theophilus Madami, for offences bordering on alleged criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of funds to the tune of N11,080,000.
A press statement by the EFCC spokesperson, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, Tuesday in Abuja, said the suspect allegedly approached the Chief Executive Officer of Pyramid Supplies Services Limited, Ibrahim Ringim Haruna, who is a distributor of pasta products, with claims that his council needed pasta products for distribution to its constituents.
Consequently, the company, sometime in November, 2018, supplied products worth N16, 080,000 to the suspect who paid a deposit of N5 million, leaving a balance of N11, 080,000.
He said after delivery of the goods, the suspect diverted the proceeds to his personal use and refused to pay the balance as agreed.
The spokesperson said the suspect would be charged to court as soon as investigation was concluded.
