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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