Neco boss in trouble over defrauding school in maiduguri of N4m

Umar was arraigned in court on Tuesday.

An assistant director with the National Examination Council (NECO), Muhammadu Umar, is facing a three-count charge of fraud to the tune of N4m.

Umar was said to have approached the proprietor of Success Private School, Maiduguri, with the claims that he had the permission of the examination body to collect SSCE registration fees of students in the school.

The proprietor obliged Umar with the fear that candidates from the school would not be allowed to partake in the examinations.

Umar then allegedly received a sum of N3.7m from the proprietor.

But Umar said he was not guilty after being arraigned before a Federal High Court in Maiduguri on Tuesday.

The judge however ordered that he should be remanded in prison until hearing of his bail applications on Thursday.