A 32-year-old woman, Hadiza Ahmed, was arraigned on Tuesday before a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N1.8 million.
The defendant, who resides at Makera Kaduna, is charged with stealing.
The Prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that Ahmed committed the offence sometime in April at Kakuri in Kaduna.
Leo alleged that the defendant was a staff of a Cooperative body, Divine Trust Initiative PLC in Kaduna but resigned at a point.
He said that when the defendant was called back to give an account of the money she was controlling as a staff of the Cooperative, the management discovered the sum of N1.8m was missing.
The prosecutor added that when she was asked about the money, she could not give satisfactory explanation of it.
He said that the offence contravened Section 217 of the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.
The defendant pleaded not guilty in court.
Upon the non-guilty plea by the defendant, Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel granted him bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two responsible sureties in like sum.
Emmanuel said that the sureties must be a blood relation to the defendant and he adjourned the case until Nov. 16, for hearing.