Justice Abubakar Umar sitting at an Abuja high court has sentenced two officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Messrs Douglas William and Abba Ishaku to a five-year jail term each after convicting them on a four count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence.
The two officers were arrested in 2010 in a ‘sting operation’.
The officials allegedly demanded N100, 000 from Kullima Kachalla, a former Chairman of Bama Local Government in Borno state in 2010, by posing as investigators of the EFCC.
They were alleged to have asked Mr. Kachalla to send them the money in order to bribe other investigators of the Commission to destroy a petition written to the EFCC, which indicted him (the former chairman) for alleged mismanagement of public funds.
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