Former Cashier at YEDC Sentenced to Prison for a N10.9 million fraud

Ibrahim Aliyu, a former cashier of Yola Electricity Distribution Company, YEDC, was convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail by Justice Nathan Musa of the Adamawa State High Court for criminal breach of trust and forgery.

On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, he was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to a one-count amended charge of criminal breach of trust and forgery at the Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

According to PM News Aliyu was charged with 36 counts of criminal breach of trust, forgery, and using a fabricated document as genuine on November 17, 2020.

When the charges were read to him, he pleaded not guilty. On May 17, 2022, the 36 accusations were reduced to a single offense, to which he pleaded guilty.

“That you, Ibrahim Aliyu, between December 2016 and June 2018 in Yola, Adamawa State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly converted to your personal use the gross sum of N10,949,500.00 (Ten Million Nine Hundred and Forty-Nine Thousand, Five Hundred Naira), property of Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC)In view of his plea, prosecution counsel, Mubarak Tijani, prayed the court to convict the defendant accordingly,”

the one-count charge read

Aliyu was found guilty by Justice Musa and sentenced to seven years in jail with a fine of N300,000.

Aliyu’s path to the Correctional Centre began in 2016 when he was arrested for stealing N10,949,500 from the Yola Electricity Distribution Company.

He faked payment reports and diverted the company’s money to his personal use while working as a cashier for the corporation.

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