Top prison boss gets 7 years in prison for obtaining money by false pretense
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
on Friday 28, 2014, secured the conviction of a
top prison officer as Justice J.J Majebi of the Kogi
State High Court, Okene, convicted and sentenced
Joseph Friday Idachaba, Deputy Controller of
Prisons, to 7 years imprisonment for offences
bordering on obtaining money by false pretense.
The convict is to pay the sum of N1, 403,114.09 in
restitution to Nigeria Prison Service.
Arraigned in 2012 on a three-count charge, the
convict was found guilty on count three of the charge
by the trial judge, who, however, acquitted him on
two remaining counts.
Count three of the charge reads: "That you Joseph
Friday Idachaba (m) being a deputy comptroller of
Nigeria Prisons Service, and Onoja D.
Ruth (IP) also a
staff of Nigeria Prison Service, sometime between
July, 2012 to February 2013 at Lokoja, Kogi State did
with intent to defraud obtained N1,403,114.09 only
from the Federal Government of Nigeria via the
Nigeria Prison Service with pretence that same
amount was the payment of monthly salaries from
Nigeria Prison Service, which amount was credited
into the UBA Plc account No 2054047736 belonging to
one Opia Mohammed Ugbade (now at large), through
NIGSS electronic fund transfer (NEFT) between July
2012-to February 2013, that the said Opia
Mohammed Ugbade's name found in the Nigeria
Prison Service electronic payroll is not a staff of the
Service which pretence you knew to be false and
hereby committed an offence contrary to section 1(1)
paragraphs A&B and punishable under section 1(3)
of the Advance Free Fraud and Other Related
Offences Act."
Comments
Post a Comment
I Appreciate your valuable Feedback. So, Please DO NOT SPAM - Spam comments will be deleted immediately.
Don't use brand name in name field and you're not allowed to use links in comments unless it's necessary
Such Comments will be removed immediately.
Thanks,
Kelvin