The former Governor of TARABA State TONY NYAME had been admitted in a FCT high court; that the payment
voucher for 24.3 million naira
issued for grains in 2005 has no receipt name on it. REV. NYAME admitted during a cross examination by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
prosecuting counsel written in Jacob’s name.
The former governor in facing the trial
for allegedly misappropriating 1.64
Billion naira during his tenure as
the state governor from 1999 to 2007; Former governor NYAME said that he had given directives for his permanent secretary
MR. DENNIS NOVES to raise a memo for
the purchase of grain in 2005. He said that the memo was raised and utilized to
the total sum of 24.3 Million naira and
for a purchase which was made for direct labor.
The payment voucher was produced in
court and given for NYAME to
identify for the sake of the money which date and signature was not affixed.
The prosecution counsel said that DENNIS
NOVES gave evidence that there was no purchase of grains at all. Earlier,
the prosecutor MR. JACOB had
refreshed the memo of the former governor by producing the statement he made in
2007 to the EFCC in court. In the statement, NYAME wrote that the purchase was
made by a supplier and paid for in cash.
On the other hand, a Federal high Court
in Ibadan had sentenced a former executive director Institute of Agriculture Research and Training (IAR & T) Ibadan
PROF. BENJAMIN OGUGOBODE to forty
(40) years imprisonment. PROF. BENJAMIN OGUGOBODE
with alongside CHIEF ACCOUNTANT ZACHEAUS EJIMORA and ACCOUNTANT CLEMENT ADENISO was dragged to court by the EFCC on a 60
court counts charge as follows:
(1)
Bordering and Conspiracy
(2)
Money Laundering
(3)
Procurement without Government Forces
Based on the above counts, the Chief
Accountant MR. EJIMORA was jailed
for forty years, having been convicted for the most of the charges while MR. ADENISON had been convicted for the
first count charge which subjected him to four years jail term.
In the ruling the entire charge, JUSTICE AYO EMMANUEL said that the
prosecution had proven beyond reasonable doubt that the defendants were guilty
of the allegations leveled against them. JUSTICE
EMMANUEL explained that the prosecution was able to convince the court that
the accused diverted about 177 Million
naira out of over 600 million naira
subvention of the institution to an account which was not known to the
Accountant General of Federation (Nigeria).
The Judge ruled that the forty (40)
years sentence to the first and second defendants should be spent concurrently.
Speaking with the newsmen to the proceeding counsel to the first defendant TUNDE OLUKOYA said that the Judgment
was upright. Counting on the EFCC to
one another said the judgment will serve as an example to other public office
holders.
Finally, Crises arose in 2011 when
people accused PROF. OGUGOBODE of
gross Misconduct. That is the new for today.
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