LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHAIRMAN TO SPEND 7 YEARS IN PRISON

By: OKE ZAINAB and AYINLA OLAMIDE and AJAYI AYOOLUWA 



The immediate past sole administrator of Kaura local government in Kaduna state, Ibrahim Akut Baba, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for fraud.
Ibrahim Akut Baba will spend 7 years behind bar.

Justice Tukur Mu’azu of Kaduna state High Court convicted and sentenced Baba to seven years imprisonment without option of fine for offences bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.
The convict was arraigned before Justice Mu’azu on Thursday, January 7 on allegation of defrauding one Alhaji Auwal Ibrahim of Rahusa Investment Limited, Sabon Hunkuyi, Kaduna state sometime in 2011, over a phony gas supply contract.

The victim allegedly paid the convict N1million for the supply of five trucks of gas at the rate of N.2million per truck.