A local government book keeper has been charged to court for stealing from dead staffers.
Here is how prosecutor, E.F.C.C. release details of the development
'The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today February
11, 2014 arraigned one Inuwa Mohammed Ahmed, an accountant with a local
government council in Bauchi State before Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of
the Federal High Court, Bauchi on a two count charge of fraud.
'Ahmed was arrested following a petition by the children of late Hajia Marke Waziri who was a staff
of
the local government council. In the petition, Yusuf Dakale, son-in-law
to the deceased, alleged that Inuwa Ahmed literally stole from the dead
by collecting the salary of their mother after her death in May 2009.
The
council accountant allegedly failed to act on the death
notification documents submitted after the death of Waziri. Instead he
would, for successive months, sign on behalf of the deceased and collect
the salary for his personal use.
When the charge was read to the accused, he pleaded not guilty.
Count one of the charge reads, "that you Inuwa Mohammed (m), between November 2009 to March 2010
at
Katagum, Bauchi state within the jurisdiction of this honourable
court, and with intent to defraud, forged the signature of one late
Marka Waziri, a deceased staff of Katagum Local Government Council and
by which you collected her salary for those months knowing full well
that she was dead,
contrary to and punishable under Section 1(2) (c) of the Miscellaneous Offences
Act, CAP M17 (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria).
Justice Umar adjourned the case to 19th and 20th of March, 2014 for hearing, while
ordering that the accused person be remanded in prison custody.'
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