Double Salary Fraud: ICPC Secures Conviction Of Edo Civil Servant

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, says it has secured the conviction of Ewere Morgan Eseosa, a civil servant in Edo State.

The civil servant was convicted of receiving double salaries.

The Commission said that Eseosa’s offence is in gross violation of anti-corruption laws, adding that a thorough investigation showed that Eseosa had been simultaneously drawing salaries from the University of Benin and Ikpoba Okha Local Government Council, two government entities.

The Commission said that the civil servant accumulated an illegal sum of N1,328,255.47 in unearned payments.

The ICPC stated that after concluding the investigation, its Prosecutor, Dennis Nnaemeka Okoro, presented the civil servant before the Edo State High Court on two counts of obtaining by pretenses and cheating, under Sections 419 and 421 of the Criminal Code Act 2004.

In the case marked B/CD/ICPC/2C/2024, the initial two-count charge was amended to one, after the defendant entered a plea bargain, to which the defendant pleaded guilty.

He was sentenced to one-year imprisonment or a fine of N150,000.00 Justice Williams Aziegbemhin.

He was ordered to refund the sum of N1,328,255.47 to the Federal Government of Nigeria through the ICPC Recovery Account.

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