ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service Quadri Adeyinka, has been convicted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), for committing a travelling passport fraud.
His conviction was disclosed in a statement by the Spokesperson for the Commission, Ag. Director, Public Enlightenment and Education, Demola Bakare, FSI, on Monday.
Bakare said the commission has arraigned the convict before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja on a four-count charge bordering on gratification, conferment of corrupt advantage and cheating contrary to extant provisions of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and the Penal Code Act.
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The Counsel to ICPC, Dr Osuobeni Akponimisingha had, in the course of the trial, led evidence before the court on how Adeyinka defrauded Ovie Ojeffia under the pretence of regularising the latter’s international passport.
Adeyinka was said to have received the sum of ₦100,000 from Ojeffia, to regularise the said passport but reneged.
The victim thereafter petitioned ICPC, which led to the investigation and arraignment of the convict before the court.
Justice Onwuegbuzie in his judgement, found Adeyinka guilty on all four counts charge, and sentenced him to seven years each for counts 1 and 2, five years for count 4, and two years for count 3.
It was gathered that the sentences are to run concurrently.
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