A Kano State High Court has sentenced two men, Buhari Abdullahi and Umar Mukhtar Usman to six months imprisonment for impersonating operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The judgment was delivered on Friday, July 25, 2025, by Justice Nasiru Saminu after the defendants pleaded guilty to a one-count charge brought against them by the Kano Zonal Directorate of the anti-graft agency.
According to a statement posted on the Commission’s official X platform, the duo were arrested for falsely parading themselves as EFCC investigators with forged identity cards.
This, the EFCC said was in a bid to defraud members of the public.
According to the EFCC, the offence contravenes Section 132 of the Penal Code law.
The charge reads, ‘’That you Buhari Abdullahi and Umar Mukhtar Usman sometime in May 2025 at Kano within the jurisdiction of this honourable court falsely impersonated to be investigators of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) where you used false identity card and paraded yourselves as staff of EFCC and you thereby committed an offense contrary to and punishable under Section 132 of the Penal Code law.”
Following their guilty plea, the prosecution counsel, Idris Haruna presented the facts of the case and urged the court to convict the suspects accordingly.
Justice Saminu sentenced both men to six months imprisonment with the option of ₦50,000 fine each.
