Borno Councillor Jailed Four Years for Sale of IDPs’ Items
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 4, 2017
secured the conviction of a Supervisory Councillor from Mafa Local
Government Area, Umar Ibrahim and one Bulama Ali Zangebe, who were
proecuted before Justice F. Umaru of the State High Court Maiduguri on a
4-count charge bordering on conspiracy to sell and misappropriate the
proceed of rice meant for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Mafa
Local Government.
Ibrahim was arrested alongside Zangebe and Modu
Bulama, for allegedly diverting180 bags of rice donated by Danish
Refugee Council (DRC), a Non Governmental Organization, for victims of
insurgency in Mafa Local Government,
In his Judgment, Justice Umar
held that “The EFCC proved its case beyond reasonable doubt as there was
an agreement to do illegal act. The convicts conspired to do illegal
act to sell rice meant for the IDPs”.
He therefore sentenced both
convicts to two years and a fine of N1m each on the charge of criminal
misappropriation and two years in prison for conspiracy. The N50,000
recovered from the agents that sold the rice was ordered forfeited to
the Borno State Government”.
Count two of the charge read:
“That
you, UMAR IBRAHIM and one SHETTIMA LAWAN MAINA (now at large) sometime
in November, 2016 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of
this Honourable Court dishonestly converted to your personal use the sum
of N1,440,000.00 (one million, four hundred and forty thousand naira)
only, being the proceeds from the sales of 180 bags of rice meant for
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Mafa Local Government Area of
Borno State contrary to and punishable under Sections 308 and 309 of the
Penal Code Law Cap 345, Laws of the Northern States of Nigeria
respectively”.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head Media & Publicity
4 May 2017
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