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Court Jails UDUTH’s Accountant for Diversion of over N60M via GIFMIS

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"3vRzVtpZ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission &lpar;ICPC&rpar; has secured the conviction of one Lukumanu Sani Waziri&comma; an accountant at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital &lpar;UDUTH&rpar;&comma; Sokoto&comma; for corruption and abuse of office&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"eAD6hqlQ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Waziri was found guilty of diverting public funds amounting to over Sixty-million naira through unauthorized access to the Government Integrated Financial Information System &lpar;GIFMIS&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ICPC had in 2021&comma; in a charge number&colon; FHC&sol;ICPC&sol;122021 arraigned Waziri and two others before Honourable Justice M&period; Abdulgafar of the Federal High Court&comma; Sokoto Division in a nine-count charge of fraud and corruption&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the course of the trial&comma; ICPC’s Prosecutor&comma; Dr Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha&comma; led evidence before the court on how Waziri&comma; a designated user of GIFMIS in the Teaching Hospital altered financial records and facilitated the transfer of multimillions of government money into private accounts&comma; including his own and that of one Monday Michael Adejo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"L1duOo99" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Waziri was also said to have&comma; without authorization changed the bank account details meant for state taxes of Kogi&comma; Edo&comma; Bauchi and Zamfara States to that of Monday Adejo Michael where the taxes due to the aforementioned States were fraudulently diverted to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>One of the counts against him read&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;That you LUKUMANU SANI WAZIRI &lpar;M&rpar; and Monday Michael Adejo &lpar;M&rpar; sometime in April&comma; 2020 or thereabout&comma; conspired amongst yourselves to take possession of the sums of N6&comma;127&comma;465&period;75&comma; N8&comma;552&comma;824&period;60 and 5&comma;939&comma;666&period;49 totaling N20&comma;619&comma;956&period;8 &lpar;Twenty Million&comma; Six Hundred and Nineteen Thousand&comma; Nine Hundred and Fifty-Six Naira&comma; Eight Kobo&rpar; from the Government Integrated Financial Information System into the First Bank Account of Monday Michael Adejo with account number&colon; 30142906334 on the prompting of Lukumanu Sani WAZIRI&comma; which reasonably ought to have known that such funds form part of the proceeds of an unlawful act&comma; namely&colon; corruption and fraud and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Sections 18 and 15 &lpar;1&rpar; &lpar; d &rpar; and punishable under Section 15 &lpar; 3 &rpar; of the Money Laundering &lpar;Prohibition&rpar; Act 2011 &lpar;as amended&rpar;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In his judgement on friday&comma; Justice Abdulgafar found Mr&period; Waziri guilty of seven&comma; out of the nine counts charge levelled against him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a statement Signed by Demola Bakare&comma; fsi Director&comma; Public Enlightenment and Education&sol;Spokesperson for the CommissionThe court thereafter sentenced the convict as follows&colon; ”one year imprisonment or a fine of ₦200&comma;000 each on Counts 1 and 2&semi; one year imprisonment each on Counts 3&comma; 4&comma; and 5 without the option of a fine&semi; and three years imprisonment or a fine of ₦500&comma;000 each on Counts 8 and 9&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; 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