By AGATHA N UJU, Correspondent, Abuja
The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction and sentence of Obadofin Daniel Bamise and Hadiza Oyiza Yakubu, before Justice A.A. Bello of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna for theft.
Both convicts are former officials of a new generation bank.
They were prosecuted on separate one-count charges of theft. When their offences were read to them, they pleaded “guilty,” following which the prosecution counsel, Moses Arumemi urged the court to convict and sentence them accordingly, EFCC’s Head, Media & Publicity, Dele Oyewale said in a statement made available to The First Mail newspaper in Abuja, on Thursday.
According to the Commission, Justice Bello, thereafter convicted and sentenced both of them to seven years imprisonment each or to pay N50,000 ( Fifty Thousand Naira) fine, respectively.
“Investigations showed that the convicts performed unauthorised withdrawals on the accounts of 305 customers of the bank, who were beneficiaries of the federal government’s Palliative Scheme, totaling N7,842,700.00 (Seven Million, Eight Hundred and Forty-Two Thousand, Seven Hundred Naira). They posted the unauthorised withdrawals to the Palliative Scheme’s coordinators’ accounts”, the statement concludes.
