A former Accountant, Pensions Accounts Office of the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, Garba Abdullahi Tahir also known as Tahir Garba has been convicted and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for stealing N26.1 million meant for pensioners.
The information is contained in a Statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC says the Court took the decision on Friday.
Abdullahi was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at a Federal High Court, Abuja on a seven-count amended charge bordering on money laundering.
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He had pleaded not guilty to the charges upon arraignment. The case went into the trial with the prosecution calling several witnesses and tendering documents as evidence.
Delivering judgment on Friday, Justice Inyang Ekwo said the prosecution had proved the case against the defendant and convicted him on all seven charges.
The judge sentenced the defendant to three years imprisonment on each of the seven counts. The sentences are however to run concurrently, from April 3, 2023.
The case is part of the billion naira pension fraud in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, for which a number of civil servants were investigated over ten years ago, and charged to court by the EFCC.
(Editor: Hadiza. A. A)
