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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