The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the Director of Human Resources Management of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Mr. Sulieman Bulkwang before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja for allegedly fraud.
The anti-graft agency in a statement issued Friday said Bulkwang is being prosecuted on a five-count charge, bordering on criminal diversion of funds and money laundering to the tune of N223,412,909.
He, however, pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges after they were read to him and in the absence of defence counsel.
The prosecution counsel, Ekele Iheanacho, SAN prayed the court for a trial date and for the defendant to be remanded in a correctional center.
Justice Abdulmalik adjourned the matter till February 3, 2024 for the defendant’s bail application and ordered that he be remanded in Kuje Correctional Center.
