EFCC PROSECUTE TWO CHINESE FOR ALLEGEDLY BRIBBING EFCC OFFICIAL

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sokoto Zonal office Friday, arraigned Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi over alleged conspiracy and N100m bribe.
The duo who are Chinese nationals, were made to appear before Justice Mohammed Sa’idu Sifawa of the State High Court Sokoto.
The defendants were docked for allegedly offering to bribe the EFCC Sokoto Zonal Head, Mr. Abdullahi Lawal with the sum of N100, 000.000.00 on behalf of a construction company:
Also, the China Zhonghao Nig. Ltd, is being investigated over contracts awarded it by the Zamfara State Government in the sum of N50, 000,000,000.00 between 2012 to 2019.
EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale said this in a statement in Abuja.
Oyewale explained, “The EFCC is investigating the construction company in connection with the execution of contracts for the construction of township roads in Gummi, Bukkuyun, Anka and Nassarawa towns of Zamfara State; and also the construction of 168 (One Hundred And Sixty-eight) solar-powered boreholes in the 14 local government areas of the state”.
Count one read: ’That you Mr. Meng Wei Kun and Mr. Xu Kuoi sometimes in May 2020 at Kasarawa area, Airport Road Sokoto, within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice Sokoto State agreed to do an illegal act to wit; bribery and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 59 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law, 2019 and Punishable under Section 60 (2) of the same Law’’.
The second count read: ‘’That you Mr. Meng Wei Kun and Mr. Xu Kuoi on the 11th of May 2020 at about 2200 hours at Kasarawa area, Airport Road Sokoto, within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice Sokoto State, being staff of China Zhonghao Nigeria Limited, offered a bribe of fifty million naira as inducement to one Abdullahi Lawal a Public Servant (Zonal Head of Operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Sokoto Zonal Office) in order to compromise an ongoing investigation involving your company with regard to various contracts award/execution in parts of Zamfara State and thereby committed an offence of offering bribe to a Public servant contrary to Section 83 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law, 2019 and Punishable under Section 83 (2) of the same Law’’.
But the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges when read to them.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sokoto Zonal office Friday, arraigned Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi over alleged conspiracy and N100m bribe.
The duo who are Chinese nationals, were made to appear before Justice Mohammed Sa’idu Sifawa of the State High Court Sokoto.
EFCC, however, said, “Trouble started for the two Chinese when they offered the sum of N100,000, 000( One Hundred Million Naira only) as bribe to Abdulahhi Lawal, EFCC Sokoto Zonal Head, in a desperate bid to compromise ongoing investigations of a construction company, China Zhonghao Nig. Ltd, handling contracts awarded by the Zamfara State Government to the tune of N50billion (Fifty Billion Naira) between 2012 to 2019.
“They were arrested and now facing prosecution for such an act of corruption”.
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