An FCT High Court sitting
in Gudu, has sentenced a Director in the Police Pension Office, John Yakubu
Yusuf to six years imprisonment or the option of N750, 000.00 fine for criminal
conversion of money meant for pensioners.
Mr
Yusuf pleaded guilty to three count charge of criminal conversion of N23.3
billion for personal use.
Handing
down the ruling on Monday, Justice Abubakar Talba sentenced Yusuf to two years each
on the three count charge, which will run concurrently. Justice Talbe equally ordered
the forfeiture of 32 properties belonging to the convict in the Federal Capital
Territory and Gombe state as well as the sum of about three hundred and
twenty-five million, one hundred and eighty-six thousand naira.
Mr Yusuf, who was arraigned with a former Permanent
Secretary in the Office of the Head of Service, Abubakar Kigo and four others,
including Sani Habila Zira, Esai Dangabar, Ahmed Inuwa Wada, Veronica Ulonma
Onyegbula, was charged with criminal breach of trust by public officers. They are
alleged to have stolen the sum of N3.8 billion pension funds.
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