The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee has confirmed the arrest of two of its officers, Apata Odunayo and Ogbuji Tochukwu, who had been allegedly concerned in a scuffle that led to the demise of a cadet within the Sokoto Zonal Command of the anti-graft fee, Abel Isah…..CONTINUE READING

In line with Punch, the suspects had been stated to have been introduced earlier than a Chief Magistrates’ Court docket, Gwiwa in Sokoto for felony conspiracy and culpable murder.

The anti-graft company additionally famous that the suspects have been suspended by the fee and handed over to the Nigeria Police Drive. The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this on Tuesday throughout a press convention on the fee’s headquarters in Abuja.

PUNCH Metro gathered that Isah was allegedly overwhelmed to demise by Odunayo and Tochukwu who had been his senior colleagues, over the deceased’s refusal to log off on incomplete displays seized from a fraud suspect, that was handed over to him.

On the press convention, Uwujaren stated Isah died on Could 7, 2023, on the Usmanu Danfodiyo College Educating Hospital, Sokoto, the place he was receiving therapy for the accidents he sustained.

He stated, “They’d disagreed over procedures for the custody of things belonging to a suspect in detention, resulting in a struggle, a conduct which the fee frowns at.

“The 2 officers with whom he disagreed have been suspended by the fee and handed over to the Nigeria police for additional investigation and attainable prosecution.

“The newest info is {that a} two-count holding cost bordering on felony conspiracy and culpable murder has been filed in opposition to them at a Chief Magistrates’ Court docket, Gwiwa in Sokoto”.

Each offences, Uwujaren stated, had been punishable below Sections 60 and 191 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Legislation, 2019. Along with the police investigation, the EFCC spokesman stated the suspects will face additional disciplinary measures in keeping with the fee’s employees rules.

He quoted the fee’s chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, as sending condolences to the bereaved household…..CONTINUE READING