• I didn’t make false accusation against him—Borodo

facts, unlawful arrest and detention on an alleged case of forgery, shoddy investigation, malicious prosecution” against the businessman and the police officers at Kano Police Command.

Katsina said Borodo caused the police to arrest him at the Kano airport in March 2019 on the allegation that he signed and reneged on a ‘Letter of Personal Guarantee’ of N30 million in his favour over a telecom investment in 2010, which he was unaware of.

He further stated that to prove his innocence, he spent N40 million and several costs running into millions to get a police forensic result via a laboratory referenced C:3000/ KSX/GEN/VOL13/126 dated 12th November 2019, which proved that the signature on the said guarantee was not the same as his, and that bank statements showed no money was paid to him.

In the letter, which he also copied the Minister of Police Affairs, Police Service Commission and the Director General of DSS, he said the police acted on a false information by Borodo to unlawfully detain him and charge him to court, which he is still suffering, forcing him to file a fundamental rights suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja against the police.

In his response through his counsel, B.Y. Gambo, the businessman, Borodo denied claims by Katsina that he levelled false accusation against him, insisting that both Katsina and a director of G-Cell Wireless Nig Ltd, are standing trial before a Magistrate Court in Kano for allegedly convincing him to invest N30 million in the company in 2010.

Borodo, who is the owner of Zin Investment Ltd, said the investment was for the supply of recharge cards and cell phones at a discounted rate as the network covers Kano, Kaduna, Katsina and Jigawa States.