An Abuja High Court sitting in Apo has sentenced an Immigration officer, Quadri Adeyinka to seven years imprisonment over passport fraud.
The ICPC arraigned Adeyinka before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie on a four-count charge bordering on gratification, conferment of corrupt advantage, and cheating contrary to extant provisions of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and the Penal Code Act.
The immigration officer was said to have received the sum of N100,000 from one Ovie Ojeffia to regularise his passport but failed to make good his promises.
The victim thereafter petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, which led to the investigation and arraignment of the convict before the court.
ICPC’s Acting Director, Public Enlightenment and Education, Demola Bakare, in a statement on Sunday, said the judge found the immigration officer guilty of all the allegations preferred against him.
The Commission’s statement partly read,” ICPC has secured the conviction of one Quadri Ismail Adeyinka, a staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service for committing a travelling passport fraud.
“The Commission had arraigned the convict of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja on a four counts
“Counsel to the ICPC, Dr Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha had, in the course of the trial, led evidence before the court on how Mr Adeyinka defrauded one Mr Ovie Justice Ojeffia under the pretence of regularizing the latter’s international passport.
“In his judgement, Justice Onwuegbuzie found Mr Adeyinka guilty on all four counts and sentenced him to seven years each for counts 1 and 2, five years for count 4, and two years for count 3.
The sentences are to run concurrently.”
