An officer with the Kuje Correctional Centre, Ahmed Abdu, has been sentenced to a four-year jail term by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Gwagwalada, for engaging in employment scam.
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Abdu was charged before the court in 2014 by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for defrauding one Adamu Abubakar of N250,000.
He was also said to have collected the same amount from five other persons to get them employed into any of Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and Nigerian Correctional Service, and signed an undertaking to refund the money if he failed to deliver.
Prior to the sentencing, Abdu who was not represented by a counsel, pleaded with the court to be lenient with him, adding that he was a first-time offender, as well as, the first child of his family with a very large number of dependants.
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Counsel to ICPC, Ngozi Onwuka, in her submission, prayed the court to direct Abdu to make restitution by refunding the monies he collected from other victims to them.
He said that the facts before the court had shown a consistent trait of the convict using his position as a public officer to lure unsuspecting job seekers to pay for non-existent jobs.
He sentenced Abdu to four years imprisonment – two years on each count – with no option of fine, and that the sentences would run concurrently. Dailypost
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