The Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) has arraigned an Assistant Superintendent of Immigration with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mr. Abubakar Mohammed Aseku, for allegedly receiving salaries from two further authorities businesses at the same time as an worker of the NIS.
The ICPC arraigned him earlier than Justice Binta Dogonyaro of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Excessive Court docket, Apo, based on its assertion on Wednesday.
The anti-graft company charged Mr. Aseku on 9 counts bordering on abuse of workplace and corruption.
ICPC Case
Based on the ICPC, “the defendant allegedly obtained N4.2 million in salaries from the Nasarawa State Ministry of Schooling, Science, and Know-how in 2015 whereas working as a college trainer, regardless of being on energetic responsibility with the NIS.”
He was additionally alleged to have drawn N13.4 million in salaries from the Division of Petroleum Sources (DPR) between 2018 and 2019 whereas employed by the Immigration Service.
Mr. Aseku was additional accused of allegedly facilitating the fee of N4.7 million in salaries to seven people who have been neither workers of the NIS nor on its payroll.
One of many fees reads:
“That you simply, Abubakar Mohammed Aseku, between October 2018 and October 2019, in Abuja, whereas serving as an Assistant Superintendent Immigration Officer, used your place to confer corrupt benefit upon your self by receiving a complete sum of N13,400,889.90 in salaries from the Division of Petroleum Sources, whereas concurrently employed by the Nigerian Immigration Service, thereby committing an offence opposite to and punishable underneath Part 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Act, 2000.”
What transpired in court docket
- On the court docket session, Mr. Aseku pleaded not responsible to all fees learn to him by the registrar.
- His counsel, Mr. Basil Hemba, instructed the court docket that his consumer had beforehand been granted bail by one other FCT Excessive Court docket sitting in Maitama, Abuja.
- He relied on the earlier bail situation and urged the court docket to keep up the prevailing bail phrases.
- Justice Dogonyaro upheld the bail circumstances, which was earlier granted him by the Maitama court docket.
- After that, the ICPC’s counsel, Mr. Michael Adesola, requested for an adjournment to permit the prosecution to current its witnesses.
- The presiding choose subsequently adjourned the case till April 29, 2025, for additional listening to.
Extra insights
The event comes days after the ICPC chairman, Dr. Musa Aliyu, had disclosed that the company recognized and arrested people chargeable for manipulating the payroll system, together with one case the place a authorities employee added his relations to the system.
“We have now been in a position to monitor and get well this amount of cash, and we additionally recognized individuals which are inserting ghost staff within the system. We even found that any person had put his spouse, his son, and his in-laws on the payroll,” he stated.
Based on him, the company recovered over N20 billion in pension deductions from salaries allotted to ghost staff in 2024.
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