COURT JAILS IMMIGRATION OFFICER FOR SEVEN YEARS OVER PASSPORT FRAUD
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Quadri Adeyinka, an immigration officer, was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo for passport fraud.
Adeyinka was charged with four felonies related to giving corrupt advantages, satisfying personal desires, and deceiving others in violation of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and the Penal Code Act. The charges were brought before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie.
It was explicitly claimed that Adeyinka had promised to return the N100,000 he had received from Ovie Ojeffia in exchange for regularising his passport.
Following the victim’s petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, the case was investigated, and the convicted party was brought before the judge.
In a statement on Sunday, the commission’s Acting Director, Public Enlightenment and Education Demola Bakare, said the judge found him guilty of all the allegations preferred against Adeyinka.
The 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.”
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