The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned Alanamu Zubair Olayemi, a web programmer II of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), for alleged contract fraud and abuse of office.<\/p>\n
ICPC spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, said in\u00a0a charge No: KWS\/53C\/2022 brought before Hon. Justice Adenike Akinpelu of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, ICPC accused the university staff of holding an indirect private interest in a contract awarded to Global-Wise ICT Solutions and Technology Limited of which he was the sole signatory to the company\u2019s bank account.<\/span><\/p>\n The ICPC, therefore, in a 2-count charge preferred against the accused person, informed the court of how the public servant used his position to confer corrupt advantage upon himself as the beneficial owner of Global-Wise ICT Solutions & Technology Limited, in which account the contract sum of N9,950,800.00 was paid.<\/span><\/p>\n The said contract sum was meant for the provision of basic and extended portal services.<\/span><\/p>\n The anti-graft agency said his actions are contrary to, and punishable under sections 12 and 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n When the charges were read to the defendant, he entered a \u201cnot guilty\u201d plea.<\/span><\/p>\n His counsel, Salman Jawando, then prayed the court to grant his client bail which was not opposed by the prosecution counsel.<\/span><\/p>\n The trial Judge, therefore, admitted the accused person to bail in the sum of N2,000,000.00 and two sureties in the like sum.<\/span><\/p>\n The surety must be a blood relation and a responsible resident within the jurisdiction of the court, with evidence of ownership of landed property and Affidavit of means.<\/span><\/p>\n The case has been adjourned to November 15, 2022, for commencement of hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned Alanamu Zubair Olayemi, a web programmer II of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), for alleged contract fraud and abuse of office. ICPC spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, said in\u00a0a charge No: KWS\/53C\/2022 brought before Hon. Justice Adenike Akinpelu of Kwara State High Court sitting in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5497,2075,5496],"class_list":["post-9675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-contract-fraud","tag-icpc","tag-unilorin-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9677,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions\/9677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}