The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned six employees of the Plateau State Civil Service over a seventeen million naira scam before a State High Court sitting in Jos.
According to a statement by the EFCC, Simon Dalam Alias Illiya Ezekiel, Luka Dapel, Mary Charles Wakkias, Mary Alkali, Esther Gonung and Nanchin Vivian Philibus were arraigned before Justice Yargata Nimpar of the State High Court, on a six count charge of criminal conspiracy, forgery and theft.
The statement quotes the EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren as saying the accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Between two thousand and nine to twenty twelve, the suspect were alleged to have stolen the sum of seventeen million four hundred and forty four thousand naira, five hundred and nine naira, ninety kobo, from the Plateau State Government as salaries and allowances through an account opened by the first accused Simon Dalam in the name of Iliya Ezekiel, a non-existent Commissioner for Planning.
The first accused, an accounts officer posted from the Ministry of Finance to the office of the Secretary to the State Government to oversee payment of salaries of political office holders, used his position to create a fake portfolio in the State Executive Council and opened a salary account for the purported Commissioner through which he siphoned State funds in salaries and allowances.
Justice Nimpar adjourned the case to the twenty-fourth of this month for hearing of the application for bail and ordered that the accused persons be remanded in prison custody.
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