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EFCC declares ex-Gov Shema’s aide wanted over alleged N1bn SURE-P scam

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Idris Kwado, aide to embattled former governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

He is wanted over an alleged N1 billion fraud involving the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).

Kwado, said to be the Managing Director, Idris Kwado and Sons Limited and Aminu Dikko and Sons Limited, was allegedly given a contract of N1billion by former Governor Shema, who himself EFCC claims defrauded the state of about N11 billion.

The anti-graft agency declaring Kwado wanted in a statement on Tuesday said, “Alhaji Idris Kwado Usman, the Managing Director, Idris Kwado and Sons Limited and Aminu Dikko and Sons Limited, is a Katsina-based contractor. He is wanted for complicity in the misappropriation of over N1billion SURE-P funds in Kastina during the tenure of former Governor Ibrahim Shema.

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“Usman, 49, is dark in complexion, hails from Katsina Local Government Area and had his last address as Kwado village, off Ring Road, Katsina.”
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration established SURE-P as a scheme where savings from fuel subsidy removal was re-invested for critical infrastructure development.

The EFCC had also recently charged Shema for alleged offences of criminal breach of trust, abuse of office and diversion of N11billion belonging to the state.

He was charged alongside Sani Makana, Lawal Safana and Ibrahim Dankaba before Justice Maikaita Bako of the Katsina State High Court.

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