A former staff of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Hussaini Abubakar, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment with N150,000 option of fine for stealing exhibit.
Justice S.C Amadi of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, on Wednesday, sentenced Hussaini Abubakar on the one count which was contrary to Section 383 (1) and punishable under Section 390 of the Criminal Code CAP 37 vol. II Laws of Rives State of Nigeria, 1999.
The defendant was arraigned by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Commission on a three-count charge bordering on stealing.
Count One of the charge read: “That you, Hussaini Abubakar, in 2017 at Port Harcourt in the Port Harcourt Judicial Division did fraudulently steal an exhibit from the Forensic Section of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, an exhibit which you knew was recovered in the course of investigation to wit: One Lenevo S60-A (daul sim) with serial number: HBOGOHAQ with IME slot number: 1-866059026043140, worth N18,000 (Eighteen Thousand Naira), belonging to one Chuku Nelson Nyegam and thereby committed an offence.”
The defendant pleaded guilty to all the charges, prompting prosecution counsel, N . A. Dodo, to urge the court to convict and sentence him accordingly.
