For conniving and inserting ghost names into the pension
payroll of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD)
and causing the agency to pay the sum of N586, 004.38 to a
non-pensioner, Mr. Saliu Oba Amao, a Bauchi State High Court has
sentenced Soyemi Lateef to nine years imprisonment without an
option of fine.
Similarly, the court also slammed nine years jail sentence on
Saliu Oba Amao for providing fake bank details in the name of
Ishaku Dass to the PTAD for the purpose of paying him undeserving
pension benefits.
Lateef, an Administration Officer with the Bauchi State Police
Pension Office, was charged alongside his accomplice, Amao, before
Justice S. H. Suleiman of Bauchi State High Court 7, by the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission
(ICPC).
The Commission, in a 6-count charge, told the court that the
convicts conspired to steal pension money between November and
December 2013, when Lateef inserted Amao’s name as Ishaku Dass on
the list of retirees meant to be paid by PTAD in return for an
undisclosed favour, an action that contravened Section 25 (1) (a)
of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and
punishable under Section 25 (1) (b) of the same act.
Part of the charge sheet reads, “That you Soyemi Lateef sometime
between November and December, 2013, while serving as Admin Officer
at the Bauchi State Police Pension Office, did make false statement
with the intent to mislead PTAD to pay the sum of N586, 004.38
pension to Saliu Oba Amao when you inserted in the list of retirees
the bank details which one Saliu Oba Amao opened in the name of one
Ishaku Dass, in order to repay him for a favour earlier done to you
and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 25 (1) (a) and
punishable under Section 25 (1) (b) of Corrupt Practices and Other
Related Offences Act, 2000.
Counsel to Lateef and Amao pleaded with the court to show them
mercy on the grounds that they were first-time offenders and had
cooperated fully with the prosecution.
Justice Suleiman, in his judgement, found them guilty on all the
counts and therefore sentenced them to one year and six months on
each count which will run concurrently without an option of
fine.
For conniving and inserting ghost names into the pension
payroll of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD)
and causing the agency to pay the sum of N586, 004.38 to a
non-pensioner, Mr. Saliu Oba Amao, a Bauchi State High Court has
sentenced Soyemi Lateef to nine years imprisonment without an
option of fine.
Similarly, the court also slammed nine years jail sentence on
Saliu Oba Amao for providing fake bank details in the name of
Ishaku Dass to the PTAD for the purpose of paying him undeserving
pension benefits.
Lateef, an Administration Officer with the Bauchi State Police
Pension Office, was charged alongside his accomplice, Amao, before
Justice S. H. Suleiman of Bauchi State High Court 7, by the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission
(ICPC).
The Commission, in a 6-count charge, told the court that the
convicts conspired to steal pension money between November and
December 2013, when Lateef inserted Amao’s name as Ishaku Dass on
the list of retirees meant to be paid by PTAD in return for an
undisclosed favour, an action that contravened Section 25 (1) (a)
of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and
punishable under Section 25 (1) (b) of the same act.
Part of the charge sheet reads, “That you Soyemi Lateef sometime
between November and December, 2013, while serving as Admin Officer
at the Bauchi State Police Pension Office, did make false statement
with the intent to mislead PTAD to pay the sum of N586, 004.38
pension to Saliu Oba Amao when you inserted in the list of retirees
the bank details which one Saliu Oba Amao opened in the name of one
Ishaku Dass, in order to repay him for a favour earlier done to you
and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 25 (1) (a) and
punishable under Section 25 (1) (b) of Corrupt Practices and Other
Related Offences Act, 2000.
Counsel to Lateef and Amao pleaded with the court to show them
mercy on the grounds that they were first-time offenders and had
cooperated fully with the prosecution.
Justice Suleiman, in his judgement, found them guilty on all the
counts and therefore sentenced them to one year and six months on
each count which will run concurrently without an option of
fine.
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