EFCC
Press Release
Justice C. O Ogisi of Delta State
High Court, Sapele, on Wednesday February 25, 2015 convicted and sentenced a former
Deputy Comptroller in charge of Ogwashi-Uku Prison in Delta State, DCP Diete
Wure Wisdom and a Senior Inspector of Prison, Ayamede Peter to three years
imprisonment for stealing 27, 200 litres of automotive gas oil stored in
exhibit trucks, left in the custody of the prison.
They were prosecuted on a
4-count charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on the strength
of evidence that the duo conspired to sell products in three exhibits trucks:
Mack tanker with registration number XD
605 JJT and Man Diesel Lorries with registration numbers, XD 789 ENU and XD 620
FGG, filled with AGO.
The petitioner had alleged said that after the
sale of the products, the drums and the tankers were refilled with water on the
directives of DCP Diete.
Upon their arraignment on
November 1, 2013, the convicts had pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
One of the counts read, “That
you Wisdom Wure Diete and Peter Ayamede while being a Deputy Comptroller of
Prisons in charge of Ogwashi-Uku prison and a Senior Inspector of Prison
respectively on or about April 2012 at Ogwashi-Uku Judicial Division did steal
27,200 litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) being the content of the 134 (One
Hundred and Thirty Four) drums of 200 litres each loaded in a truck with
registration number: XN 789 ENU, valued
at about N4, 02,000.00 property of the Federal Republic of Nigeria kept for
safe keeping with the Nigerian Prison Service Ogwashi-Uku which you were in
charge and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 390 and punishable
under Section 390 (5)(8)(b) & (9) of the Criminal Code Law CAP C21 Laws of
Delta State of Nigeria 2006”.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
25th February, 2015
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