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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