2 UBA Bankers & Military Commander Who Diverted N390M Pension Benefits Of Dead Officers Charged

The FG has revealed to the public details of how 2 military personels, Wing Commander Ishaka Yakubu and Lt.Commander Akinbamidele Odunsi who worked with two UBA bankers to allegedly divert N339m from the Military Pension Board (MPB) on February 2016.

The banker involved in the charge are Mrs. Violet Ogoegbunam ( the manager of the a bank in Kuforodua Street, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja) and Mrs. Abidemi Aderemi Klade (a relationship manager at the said bank).

They were said to have diverted N339,374,478.58 from the MPB, with the reason that the money represented payments to some "supposed next of kins to dead military pensioners as death benefits".

Wing Commander Yakubu is said to be a cashier with the MPB. Lt. Commander Odunsi is described as an Assistant Director, Computer, with the MPB.

This information led to the substance of a four-count charge filed on behalf of the Federal Government to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commision (EFCC) before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FTC).

 The charge filed on May 31, 2017 was endorsed by Steve Odiase of the Legal and Prosecution Department of the EFCC in Abuja.

The EFCC therefore stated that, the offences of obtaining money under false pretence were said to be contrary to section 1(I) (a) and punishable under section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006, while offences of conspiracy to obtain money under faalse pretence contrary to section 8(a) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.