Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has convicted and sentenced Tanko Gambo Biye to ten (10) years imprisonment for criminal misappropriation.
He was jailed on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, after pleading “guilty” to one- count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation, upon his arraignment by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC.
The one count amended charge read: ” That you Tukur Gambo Biye sometime in 2017 in Kaduna within the Kaduna Judicial Division of the High Court being entrusted with sum of N900,000.00 (Nine Hundred Thousand Naira) from one Ayuba Mohammed Yakasai and Lawal Pate Iya for the purpose of registering them with the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria, which you dishonestly converted to your own use in violation of the legal contract you made in regard to the said sum and you thereby committed criminal misappropriation contrary to Section 293 of the Penal Code Law of Kaduna State, 2017 and punishable under Section 294 of the same Law.”
The defendant pleaded “guilty “to the one count charge when it was read to him.
