Provost, bursar bag 4-yr jail term

THE Oyo State High Court has sentenced the Provost of the Federal Cooperative College, Eleiyele, Ibadan, Adekanye Komolafe and the bursar of the college, Ruth Aweto, to four years imprisonment each without an option of fine.
In his three-hour judgment delivered in Ibadan on Tuesday, Justice Mashood Abass held that the two principal officers of the college were guilty of abuse of office and misappropriation of funds.
The judge also found them  guilty of four out of the eight-count charge preferred against them in a suit by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
However, the convicts would spend one year in prison, as the sentence on the four-count charge would run concurrently.
The ICPC had dragged the two principal officers before the court over their role in a memo  raised to collect money for the payment of salaries of 41 casual workers, which they presented as permanent staff of the college.
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