The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned an officer with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Abubakar Aseku, for an alleged N17.6 million fraud at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Apo, Abuja.
He was arraigned on a nine-count charge of corruption and abuse of office for allegedly receiving salaries from two additional government agencies while still employed by the NIS.
The ICPC’s spokesman, Demola Bakare, who confirmed the news in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the defendant allegedly received N4.2million in salaries from the Nasarawa State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in 2015 while serving as a school teacher despite being an active officer of the NIS.
He added that Aseku also got N13.4million in salaries from the Department of Petroleum Resources between 2018 and 2019 while still under the employment of the agency.
The statement read: “That you, Abubakar Mohammed Aseku, between October 2018 and October 2019, in Abuja, while serving as an Assistant Superintendent Immigration Officer, used your position to confer corrupt advantage upon yourself by receiving a total sum of N13,400,889.90 in salaries from the Department of Petroleum Resources, while concurrently employed by the Nigerian Immigration Service, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.”
