By Miracle Ogunde
The Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Kuje, Abuja has remanded a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Usman Yusuf in Kuje prison.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) arraigned Yusuf on a five-count amended charge, bordering on alleged fraud.
The former NHIS Executive Secretary is being accused of using his office to confer undue advantages to himself between 2016 and 2017.
He was also alleged to have awarded contracts without following the due procurement process.
After being arraigned before Justice Chinyere Nwecheonwu, the defendant pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him.
Counsel to the defendant, O.I Habeeb, thereafter requested that his client be remanded in the custody of the EFCC pending the hearing of the bail application.
The trial judge, Justice Chinyere Nwecheonwu, however, pointed out that once the defendant was arraigned, he ceased to be in the custody of the EFCC.
She subsequently adjourned the case to February 12, 2025, and ordered that Yusuf be remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, pending the hearing of his bail application.
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