The former chairman of Patani Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr
Austin Bebeteidoh, has been sentenced to three years in jail for paying
his wife a monthly imprest of N110,000, thereby contravening Section 19
of the ICPC Act.
The former chairman was charged to court by the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission
(ICPC) in 2007, on a seven-count charge of violating Sections 16,19 and
25 of the ICPC Act.
He was accused of converting for his
personal use the sum of N7million overdraft facility he obtained on
behalf of Patani Local Government Council from the New Nigerian Bank Plc
and another sum of N710,000 which he purportedly used for hiring a
vehicle for official use.
Mr Bebeteidoh was also accused of
approving for fueling of his wife’s car the sum of N110,000 monthly as
imprest, even though his wife had no official car.
Justice G.B
Briki-Okolosi, while delivering his judgement on Thursday, discharged
and acquitted the accused on counts 1-5 but found him guilty on counts 6
and 7. He then sentenced the former local government chairman to three
years with an option of N200,000 fine on count 6 and another N200,000 on
count 7.
Meanwhile, the ICPC has arrested an officer of the
Nigerian Prison Service, ASP Ikwuobe Yusuf, and his accomplice, Usman
Musa, for operating a fake employment syndicate through which they
extorted hundreds of thousands of naira from applicants.
ASP
Yusuf is alleged to have collected the sum of N100,000 from 70
applicants through Musa who promised to offer the applicants employment
with National Task Force to combat illegal importation and smuggling of
goods, small arms, ammunition and light weapons.
The suspects
were arrested in Kano and Kaduna states and have been transferred to the
ICPC headquarters for further investigation.
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