Badamasi Maccido Explained

Badamasi Maccido
Office1:Senator for Sokoto North
Term Start1:May 2003
Term End1:October 2006
Predecessor1:Aliyu Abubakar
Successor1:Ahmed Muhammad Maccido
Birth Place:Sokoto State, Nigeria
Children:Mohammed, Fatima, Aisha, Abubakar and Umar

Badamasi Maccido (1961 – 29 October 2006) was elected federal Senator for the Sokoto North constituency of Sokoto State, Nigeria in April 2003 on the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) platform.He died in a plane crash in October 2006.

Maccido was born in 1961, son of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido, and went to school at Federal Government College, Sokoto.He graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria with a Bsc in Building Engineering. He once served as a Sokoto State commissioner in the administration of Governor Attahiru Bafarawa.[1]

Maccido was elected Senator for Sokoto North, taking his seat in May 2003.[2] In April 2005 the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arraigned Maccido and others for involvement in an alleged N55 million budget bribe scam.Also charged were former Senate President Adolphus Wabara and former Education Minister Fabian Osuji.[3] They were said to have demanded, received and shared N55 million to facilitate the passage of Education ministry's budget.[4] After extended legal battles, on 1 June 2010 a full panel of the Court of Appeal in Abuja quashed all the charges, discharged and acquitted the accused. In Maccido's case, the acquittal was posthumous.[5]

Maccido was killed in the crash of ADC Airlines Flight 53 with his father and his son, Umaru, on 29 October 2006.[6] The plane, which was said to be in a poor state of maintenance, crashed in a storm shortly after take-off.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Indicted Men . ThisDay . Joseph Ushigiale . 2005-03-23 . 2010-06-26.
  2. Web site: Senators . Dawodu . 2010-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20100720021846/http://www.dawodu.com/senator.htm. 20 July 2010 . live.
  3. Web site: ICPC arraigns Wabara, Osuji, others•As Obasanjo picks replacements for sacked ministers . April 13, 2005 . Daily Champion . 2010-06-26.
  4. Web site: Bribe for budget scandal: Wabara goes on appeal . Lillian Okenwa . 2006-01-12 . ThisDay . 2010-06-26.
  5. Web site: Wabara's Seven Years To Recovery . AHURAKA YUSUF . 13 June 2010 . Leadership . 2010-06-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110713193528/http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/columns/views/perspective/16209-wabaras-seven-years-to-recovery . 13 July 2011 .
  6. Web site: Yet Another Air Tragedy . Nigerian Newsday . 2010-06-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727111249/http://nasarawastate.org/newsday/news/nasara06/NewArticle392.html . 2011-07-27 . dead .
  7. Web site: Nigerian sultan among crash dead . 29 October 2006 . BBC News . 2010-06-26.