A Gombe State High Court, sitting in Gombe, Capital of the state, Thursday, convicted Atiku Mua’azu Bayum, Mohammed Adi, Ibrahim Abubakar and Abubakar Usman over conspiracy and theft.
The trio were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and eventually convicted before Justice Beatrice Iliya. It was gathered that the convicts conspired to have, as Chairman, Chief Store Officer, Chief Accountant and Director of the Gombe State Board of Internal Revenue, respectively and stole the sum of N25,060,000 belonging to Gombe State Government.
But the Defence counsel, L.A. Haruna on his part reportedly pleaded on behalf of his clients for the court to temper justice with mercy as the convicts were first-time offenders. Also, Haruna, it was learnt, told the court that the convicts didn’t waste the precious time of the court as they pleaded guilty on the day of their arraignment and that they had made some restitution and intended to fully restitute the whole amount.He also added that the convicts should pay a fine of N100,000 each following the allocutus by the defence counsel and,
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