EFCC Press Release
A former Commissioner
representing Akwa
Ibom State
on the board of the intervention agency, Niger Delta Development Commission,
NDDC, Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo was today convicted and sentenced to three years
imprisonment by an Akwa Ibom State High court for stealing 56 transformers meant
for oil producing communities in the state.
The convict who was prosecuted by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 56-count charge that borders on
stealing and conversion of 56 electricity transformers released to him by NDDC
for distribution to communities in Akwa Ibom state, was found guilty on 37 of those
counts by Justice Idongesit Ntem B. Isua and sentenced to three years
imprisonment on each of the counts. He was however discharged and acquitted on
19 counts. The sentences are to run concurrently.
The
convict was said to have applied for 90 (Ninety) electricity transformers and 4
generators from NDDC for Akwa
Ibom State
sometime in February, 2006. Approval was given for 70 (Seventy) transformers
but he diverted same to his house in Eket on the pretext that there was no
space to accommodate the newly issued 70 units of transformers at the NDDC office
in Uyo. He thereafter sent only 14 Units to NDDC office in Uyo while he withheld
56 units which he could not account for till date.
The 56 transformers are valued at Two Hundred
and Twenty million, One hundred and Seventy Six thousand, Three hundred and
Twenty Naira (N220, 176, 320).
One
of the count reads, “That you Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo being a former Akwa Ibom
State representative on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC) on or about 14th April, 2006 at Uyo in the Uyo Judicial
Division did fraudulently steal a 300 KVA/33/0.415 Transformer Serial No.
1712496 valued at Four Million, Eighteen Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty
Naira (N4,018,560.00), property of NDDC and thereby committed an offence of
stealing contrary to Section 399 and punishable under Section 404 of the
Criminal Code Cap. 38, Volume 2, Laws of Akwa Ibom State, 2000”.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
27th April, 2015
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