Fawa used fake names and files to collect money from the Salaries and Pensions Directorate. The Jigawa State police command has paraded a former member of the state House of Assembly, Saleh Fawa, for allegedly defrauding the State Government of millions of naira through the state Salaries and Pensions Directorate.
The state Commissioner of Police, Hashimu Argungu, while parading the suspect at the police headquarters in Dutse, said Fawa was arrested at Royal Tropicana Hotel following a tip off.
Fawa, who is alleged to be the leader of a pension fraud syndicate, chaired the Committee on Salaries and Pension in the Jigawa State House of Assembly for eight years when he was a member.
Argungu said the arrest was made possible due to the assistance the police received from the Salaries and Pensions Directorate regarding three forged files during investigation.
“The syndicate perpetrates the fraud by using proxy names of imaginary deceased pensioners and siblings, as well as fake files to siphon money from the state's Salaries and Pensions Directorate,” he said.
Fawa confessed to the crime, adding that he also ordered the other suspects to forge a file with the name Abdullahi Mohammed, whom they claimed had died as a classroom teacher with Koki–Nami Primary School Gumel LGA.
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