EFCC Press Release
The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission on Wednesday 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 seven years imprisonment for offences bordering on obtaining money by false
pretence.
The convict is to pay the sum
of N1, 403,114.09 (One Million, Four Hundred and Three Thousand, One Hundred
and Fourteen Naira, Nine Kobo) 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 comtroller of
Nigeria Prison 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."
Wilson
Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
28
th November, 2014
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