3 civil servants, one businessman jailed for Immigration job scam

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of three civil servants and a businessman for defrauding one Bala Rabiu of N900,000 for fake Immigration jobs purportedly secured for six of his children.

The convicts, Jibrin Babagana, a businessman; a civil servant with the Kano State Ministry of Education, Mohammed Rabiu Isa; and Sabo Abdullahi and Ado Abdul of the State Ministry of Justice, were sentenced to two years imprisonment each by Justice Nasiru Saminu of the Kano State High Court sitting in Kano on each of the four-count charge preferred against them.

One of the charges read: “That you, Jibrin Babagana (m) Mohammad Rabiu (m), Sabo Abdullahi (m) and Ado Abdu (m) sometime in August 2018 at Kano agreed among yourselves to issue fake letters of employment into the Nigeria Immigration Service to the children of Alhaji Bala Rabiu knowing that such letters were fake thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 97 of the Penal Code Laws of Kano State.”

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The defendants pleaded guilty to the charges, while their counsel, S. G Gani pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, saying the defendants were first-time offenders and family men with children.

The ICPC counsel, Fatima Musa, confirmed that the defendants had no previous offences record with the commission.

Justice Saminu, therefore, sentenced the defendants to two years imprisonment with a fine option of N300,000 on each count, adding that the sentences are to run concurrently.