The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, says it has secured the conviction Ewere Morgan Eseosa, a civil servant in Edo State.
The civil servant was convicted for going home with double salaries.
The Commission said that Eseosa 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 said that after the conclusion of investigation, its Prosecutor, Dennis Nnaemeka Okoro, dragged the civil servant before the Edo State High Court on two counts of obtaining by false pretense 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.
