An Abuja High Court yesterday sentenced two officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, to five years imprisonment without an option of fine.
The two EFCC officials namely, Douglas William and Abba Ishaku were arraigned on October 17, 2010 by Federal Capital Territory Police Command on a four-count charge bordering on? conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence.
The two officers were arrested in 2010 in a ‘sting operation’. Until their arrest, the duo was stationed at the reception of the EFCC headquarters in Wuse, Abuja.
Trouble started for the officers when they allegedly demanded for N100, 000 from Kullima Kachalla, a former Chairman of Bama Local Government in Borno State in 2010, by posing as investigators of the EFCC.
They were alleged to have asked Mr. Kachalla to send them the money in order to bribe other investigators of the commission to destroy a petition written to the EFCC, which indicted him (the former chairman) for alleged mismanagement of public funds.