ICPC secures conviction of FAAN staff for forgery
The Self sustaining Notorious Practices and Other Associated Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of Mr. Iyonu Eseme, a workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), for the employ of a cast Replace Take a look at Certificates to get employment with the agency.
Eseme was arraigned earlier than Honourable Justice M.I. Tanko of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on a three-depend cost bordering on forgery. The prices were introduced below Sections 366 and 368 of the Penal Code Act, apart from to Allotment 25 (1)(b) of the Notorious Practices and Other Associated Offences Act 2000.
Likely the most prices be taught: “That you, Iyonu Eseme (M), sometime within the month of August 2020 at Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did with intent to commit fraud, forge a Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity Certificates of Competence additionally known as Replace Take a look at Certificates I, II, III (2014) with swap check code KN/6/90052, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Allotment 363 and punishable below Allotment 364 of the Penal Code.”
Upon arraignment, the defendant, by his counsel, Mr. Anthony Idanosa Eruaga, opted for a plea good deal. The prosecuting counsel for the ICPC, Mr. Nura Saidu, licensed the plea good deal in accordance to Allotment 270 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 and suggested to the court a conviction with a truthful.
Justice Tanko, having opinion to be the plea and the settlement reached by each and each events, convicted Eseme and sentenced him to a truthful of Fifty Thousand Naira (₦50,000.00) only.
In an announcement, the ICPC reiterated its dedication to constructing sure integrity and transparency in public establishments and warned that acts of forgery and various monstrous practices is no longer going to transfer unpunished.
