ICPC Arraigns UNICAL PG Registrar, Project Manager For Alleged Bribery

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission (ICPC), has arraigned an Assistant Registrar of the
University of Calabar Post-Graduate School, Mrs. Emem Akpan, for
allegedly demanding a bribe from a former student of the
school.

ICPC, in a two count-charge filed at the High Court of Cross
River State, Calabar, also arraigned one Mr. Promise Osundu, over
his alleged complicity in the demand for bribe from the ex-post
graduate student, Mrs. Susan Eno-Abasi Genschow.

The charge sheet filed before Justice I. B. Itade of High Court
9, revealed that, Mr. Osundu, who was a Project Manager in Seamfix
Nigeria Limited for the University of Calabar Transcript Projects,
conspired with the Assistant Registrar, Mrs. Emem Akpan, to defraud
Mrs. Genschow of the sum of N110,500 in the course of processing
her transcript and certificate.

They were alleged to have committed the crime sometime between
2019 and 2020, contrary to Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and punishable
under Section 8 (1) (b) (ii) of the same Act.

The accused persons pleaded not guilty when the charges were
read to them.

Counsel to Mrs. Akpan, O. G. Onah, filed a bail application,
which was not opposed by ICPC Counsel, Kioba Anabrabra.

Justice Itade, ruling on the bail application, granted them bail
in the sum of N3 million each with one surety in like sum.

The trial judge also ruled that the sureties must be public or
civil servants working in Cross River State. The case was then
adjourned to 21st October, 2021 for trial.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission (ICPC), has arraigned an Assistant Registrar of the
University of Calabar Post-Graduate School, Mrs. Emem Akpan, for
allegedly demanding a bribe from a former student of the
school.

ICPC, in a two count-charge filed at the High Court of Cross
River State, Calabar, also arraigned one Mr. Promise Osundu, over
his alleged complicity in the demand for bribe from the ex-post
graduate student, Mrs. Susan Eno-Abasi Genschow.

The charge sheet filed before Justice I. B. Itade of High Court
9, revealed that, Mr. Osundu, who was a Project Manager in Seamfix
Nigeria Limited for the University of Calabar Transcript Projects,
conspired with the Assistant Registrar, Mrs. Emem Akpan, to defraud
Mrs. Genschow of the sum of N110,500 in the course of processing
her transcript and certificate.

They were alleged to have committed the crime sometime between
2019 and 2020, contrary to Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and punishable
under Section 8 (1) (b) (ii) of the same Act.

The accused persons pleaded not guilty when the charges were
read to them.

Counsel to Mrs. Akpan, O. G. Onah, filed a bail application,
which was not opposed by ICPC Counsel, Kioba Anabrabra.

Justice Itade, ruling on the bail application, granted them bail
in the sum of N3 million each with one surety in like sum.

The trial judge also ruled that the sureties must be public or
civil servants working in Cross River State. The case was then
adjourned to 21st October, 2021 for trial.