{"id":3807,"date":"2025-01-19T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2025-01-19T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:45:36","slug":"diversion-of-n60m-court-jails-usmanu-danfodiyo-university-accountant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/01\/19\/diversion-of-n60m-court-jails-usmanu-danfodiyo-university-accountant\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversion of N60m: Court Jails Usmanu Danfodiyo University Accountant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has secured the conviction of one Lukumanu Sani Waziri, an accountant at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, UDUTH, Sokoto, for corruption and abuse of office.<\/p>\n

Waziri was found guilty of diverting public funds amounting to over N60 million through unauthorized access to the Government Integrated Financial Information System, GIFMIS.<\/p>\n

ICPC had in 2021, in a suit numbered FHC\/ICPC\/122021, arraigned Waziri and two others before Justice M. Abdulgafar of the Federal High Court, Sokoto Division, on a nine-count charge of fraud and corruption.<\/p>\n

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In the course of the trial, ICPC\u2019s Prosecutor, Dr Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha, led evidence before the court on how Waziri, a designated user of GIFMIS in the Teaching Hospital, altered financial records and facilitated the transfer of multimillions of government money into private accounts, including his own and that of one Monday Michael Adejo.<\/p>\n

Waziri was also said to have, without authorization, changed the bank account details meant for state taxes of Kogi, Edo, Bauchi and Zamfara states to that of Monday Adejo Michael, where the taxes due to the aforementioned states were fraudulently diverted.<\/p>\n

One of the counts against him read: \u2018That you LUKUMANU SANI WAZIRI (M) and Monday Michael Adejo (M) sometime in April 2020 or thereabout, conspired amongst yourselves to take possession of the sums of N6,127,465.75, N8,552,824.60 and 5,939,666.49 totalling N20,619,956.8 (Twenty Million, Six Hundred and Nineteen Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Six Naira, Eight Kobo) from the Government Integrated Financial Information System into the First Bank Account of Monday Michael Adejo with account number: 30142906334 on the prompting of Lukumanu Sani WAZIRI, which reasonably ought to have known that such funds form part of the proceeds of an unlawful act, namely: corruption and fraud and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Sections 18 and 15 (1) ( d ) and punishable under Section 15 ( 3 ) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (as amended).\u201d<\/p>\n

In his judgement on Friday, Justice Abdulgafar found Waziri guilty of seven out of the nine counts levelled against him.<\/p>\n

The court thereafter sentenced the convict as follows: \u201cOne-year imprisonment or a fine of N200,000 each on Counts 1 and 2; one-year imprisonment each on Counts 3, 4, and 5 without the option of a fine; and three years imprisonment or a fine of N500,000 each on Counts 8 and 9.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has secured the conviction of one Lukumanu Sani Waziri, an accountant at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, UDUTH, Sokoto, for corruption and abuse of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t