EFCC Arraigns Travel Agent CEO In Gombe For N144 million Pilgrims Funds

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned the Chief Executive Officer of MB Lugga Global Travels and Tours Limited, Mustapha Mohammed before Justice TG.Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Gombe.

Mohammed was arraigned on a three-count charges bordering on intent to defraud and obtaining by false pretences to the tune of N144, 162, 500( One
Hundred and Forty- Four Million One Hundred and Sixty Two Thousand and Five Hundred Naira).

Count one of the charges reads: “That you, Mustapha Mohammed , male adult, while being the Chief Executive Officer of MB Lugga Global Travel and Tours Limited and Nazifi Sale Idris (now at large) sometimes in 2024 at Gombe, Gombe state within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did with intent to defraud falsely obtained through your personal Access Bank plc account number 0026323827, the total sum of N97,080,000.00(Ninety Seven Million, Eighty Thousand Naira) from one Hamza Ibrahim Maina for the purpose of procurement of flight tickets, visas and accommodation for 2024 Ramadan Lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other related offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.