Find the EFCC press statement below
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."
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