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ABUBAKAR MUAZU LAMIDO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the ruling in a no case submission by the Kano State High Court delivered on 2nd December, 2020; Coram: Dije Abdu Aboki, J. The Appellant is standing trial on a one count charge of criminal breach of trust contrary to Section 312 of the Penal Code. The Charge reads as follows:-
“That you Rabiu Yusuf Kurfi being a Director of Summerset Universal Premier Limited and Summerset Universal Premier Limited sometimes between 3rd – 10th September, 2015 at Kano in the Kano Judicial Division of the High Court, being entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit; N57,840,000.00 (Fifty Seven Million, Eight Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira) by Okechukwu Obiapuma and Nnamdi Mbah that you are selling $260,300 (Two Hundred and Sixty Thousand, Three Hundred US Dollars) equivalent of N57,840,000.00 (Fifty Seven Million, Eight Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira) did dishonestly misappropriate the sum of $240,…