Justice James Omotosho of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja, has convicted Garuba Mohammed Duku, a retired Director of Finance and Administration with the Abuja Metropolitan Administration Council (AMMC) below the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), for corruption and cash laundering involving N318 million.
The court docket discovered Duku responsible on a six-count cost filed by the Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) in swimsuit quantity FHC/ABJ/CR/608/2022.
Justice Omotosho dominated that the prosecution had proved its case past an inexpensive doubt via proof and witness testimonies. Duku was sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment on every of the six counts, with an choice of a tremendous equal to 5 occasions the quantity said in every rely, bringing the full tremendous to about N1.6 billion. The sentences are to run concurrently.
In an announcement yesterday, the ICPC confirmed that Duku was convicted and sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment, noting that investigations revealed he fraudulently diverted N318.25 million belonging to the AMMC into his private Constancy Checking account between 2012 and 2013.
The fee stated Duku obtained a number of funds totalling the quantity, together with N56.25 million, N71 million, N53 million, N54 million, N46 million, and N36.3 million, which he later transferred to Bureau de Change operators and used for unauthorised functions.
In the course of the trial, the ICPC dismissed Duku’s declare that the funds have been disbursed to his superiors, saying no proof was introduced to assist the assertion.
