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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has told a Federal High Court, in Abuja,how a private lawyer to the late Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Abdullahi Inde Dikko, Mr. Umar Hussaini, allegedly laundered N1.1 billion belonging to the NCS.
Mr. Hussaini is facing a 2-count charge of obtaining money by false pretense contrary to and punishable under the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006 before Justice Ijeoma Ojokwu, of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
An operative of the Commission, Mrs. Yetunde Ope Faniran,while testifying as a witness at the resumed trial, told the court that Mr. Hussaini, who was a private solicitor to late Dikko, received the sum of N1.1 billion as “completion security deposit’ for the sale of 120 housing units for officers of NCS from Cambial Nigeria Limited, through his law firm, Capital Law Office, under the false pretence that he was an external solicitor to Nigeria Custo
HIS FORAY IN NIGERIAN CUSTOMS SERVICE
Dikko joined the Nigerian Customs Service in 1988. Throughout this time, he served at various customs commands, such as Seme Border, Tincan Island Port, Apapa, all in Lagos; Imo Command, Kaduna Command, Investigation and Inspection Headquarters, Abuja, before he was appointed as Comptroller-General in 2009.
Yar’Adua Appointed Dikko and Jonathan worked with him all through
The late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was the one who appointed him the number one customs officer in the country. When Yar’Adua died in 2010, Goodluck Jonathan, his then deputy, made some changes in the government but he did not remove Dikko from office.
Dikko died in Abuja after a long illness. He died of cancer complicated by COVID-19.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 18, 2021
A former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Abdullahi Inde Dikko, is dead.
Dikko died in Abuja after a long illness.
SaharaReporters learnt that he died of cancer complicated by COVID-19.
He was 61 years old and a native of Musawa, Katsina State.
The former Customs boss is survived by one wife and three children –two sons and a daughter.
He attended Government College, Kaduna in 1974 where he obtained the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in 1980.
He had a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and a master s degree in Finance from the University of Dimitrov Apostle Tshenov, Svishtov, Bulgaria.
Ex-Comptroller-General of Customs, Abdullahi Inde Dikko and Accountant General of the Federation, Jonah Ogunniyi Otunla have revealed how they refunded the sum of N8.2billion loot to the treasury.